Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Guaranteed to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, the film features archival footage, flashbacks, post-experiment interviews with the prisoners and guards, and comparisons with real prisons. It documents the surprise arrests by city police and vividly shows the pathology that developed among participants, forcing the two-week study to be terminated after only 6 days. Viewer-tested previews reveal its value across many high school and college courses and among a variety of community audiences, including correctional, judicial, military, and civic.

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Subject(s)Psychology
Author(s)Philip G Zimbardo
Age11-14, 14-16
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Shelf referenceA 302.3 QUI
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x86fy

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