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How the Prison Study Is Now Read

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The Stanford prison study is now taught as a demonstration of demand characteristics as much as of the power of assigned roles.

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Guards who believed they were assisting the experimenters acted on what they took the experimenters to want.

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Zimbardo and Haney dispute this reading in print. Both accounts are public, and this course takes neither as settled.

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