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The BBC prison study

In this column Richard Gross discusses key studies in psychology. Here, he explores the BBC’s reworking of the classic Stanford prison experiment of the 1970s.

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The BBC’s prison study, screened as The Experiment, aimed to answer questions similar to those that motivated Milgram’s obedience experiments (1963) and Haney et al.’s Stanford prison experiment (1973). For example:

● When do the powerful embrace inequality and abuse their power?

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