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Describe Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. What happened in the experiment? Do you think you would have conformed in the same way that the participants in the study or do you think you would have acted differently? Why or why not?

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The guards became abusive and authoritarian, while the prisoners became submissive and emotionally distressed. The experiment revealed how quickly ordinary individuals could adopt and internalize harmful behaviors due to their assigned roles and the environment.

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