http://www.prisonexp.org

reading that made me want to post this.

Abu Ghirab legitimized this experiment. Stick people together long enough, and they kill each other.

Thanks for posting this

Absolutely amazing.

This deserves to be one of the highest-rated things on this site. Amazing and terrifying.

Hey, prisoner 416! Respect my Authoritah!!

Arguably the single greatest piece of social research ever performed.

Frightening.

Wow.

The "shyness as a form of prison" part at the very end is interesting too

I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!

After watching this I WANT to go to prison

Is that Theodore Bikel?

Oh Humanity.