A groundbreaking look at the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, through the first-hand accounts of the original prison | dHNfaWdVUXdYNnZaUlU
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00:00I've only been in jail once.
00:03The Stanford Prison Experiment.
00:06In the summer of 1971,
00:08Dr. Zimbardo took a bunch of college kids,
00:11randomly assigned them to be prisoners and guards,
00:14and locked them in a basement.
00:16The only thing we told the guards was,
00:18do whatever you have to to maintain law and order.
00:21It escalated very quickly.
00:24The study shows what happens
00:26when you put good people in a bad place.
00:31You may think you know what you're dealing with,
00:33but you don't.
00:36Nobody from the media has ever interviewed me.
00:40I was a prisoner.
00:41Prisoner.
00:41A guard.
00:42A guard.
00:42Guard.
00:45I shouted in their faces,
00:47I'm gonna hit you so hard,
00:49it's gonna kill your whole family.
00:51Professor Zimbardo made it a point
00:53to come up to me and say, you were fantastic.
00:55He's caught in his own trap.
00:58He really built his career on this.
01:03None of their criticisms hold up.
01:05Zero.
01:07It's made me feel terrible my whole life.
01:11It's fraud.
01:11Fraud.
01:12Fraud.
01:12Anybody that tried to reduce human behavior
01:14to such simple notions is fraud.
01:20You leave it up to the audience,
01:21which do you think is the reality?
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