The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) on Netflix
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In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo pays students to play guards and prisoners in a mock prison in a Stanford basement. Daniel Culp and Peter Mitchell are among the prisoners.
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The experiment that psychology professor Philip Zimbardo designs at Stanford University in 1971 tests the hypothesis that social roles, not individual personality, cause people's behavior. He selects male students for a fourteen-day prison simulation in the basement of Jordan Hall, the psychology department building, where they earn fifteen dollars a day. The parts of guard and prisoner are assigned at random to the participants. Daniel Culp is given the number 8612, Peter Mitchell 819, and Gavin Lee 3401. Zimbardo takes a part in the simulation as well, and as it unfolds, the students cast as guards begin to treat the prisoners abusively.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
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- Producer Brent Emery hired Tim Talbott to write the film in 2002, but it took twelve years to get made, held up by financing problems and the 2007 writers' strike.
