Calling Donald Rumsfeld | The Stanford Prison Experiment

What suspects had done was to answer a local newspaper ad calling for volunteers in a study of the psychological effects of prison life. We wanted to see what the psychological effects were of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. To do this, we decided to set up a simulated a prison and then carefully note the effects of this institution on the behavior of all those within its walls.

A fascinating study of how guards and inmates quickly fall into brutal, frightening patterns . . . even when they know none of it is real.