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Sinisterhood

Episode 33: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Is evil born or made? Given the right circumstances will good people turn on their fellow man or woman? In 1971 an elite psychology professor conducted what some would call the most groundbreaking and controversial experiment the world has ever seen in search of the answer. But was the experiment unbiased or were the results tainted because of the professor's own sadistic tendencies? Support Sinisterhood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is evil born or made? Will good people turn on their fellow man in the right circumstances?

0:06.0

One elite university professor set out to prove his hypothesis, but to what lengths was he willing to go to prove his theory?

0:13.0

Corruption, abuse, torture? This week's episode is The Stanford Prison Experiment.

0:20.0

The Stanford Prison Experiment

0:24.0

Up, bump in the lights, your heart fills the dread. Probably a murderer who wants you dead.

0:32.0

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse. Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.

0:39.0

It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could. You'd rather just listen to who sinister who?

0:55.0

I'm gonna kill you.

0:56.0

I have a question. Please, completely unrelated to anything we're discussing.

1:01.0

What's my favorite kind of question?

1:03.0

What is the timeline for when you stop turning on your Christmas lights?

1:08.0

Oh, like outside. It's bad enough that you haven't removed them. On my way over here, there were several homes with full on Christmas lights.

1:16.0

I live in a festive neighborhood. Please don't judge.

1:20.0

It wasn't your neighborhood. It wasn't your neighborhood. Some of my people in my neighborhood have them too.

1:24.0

I did see a friend from high school post on Instagram and she was playing with her baby and the tree was lit up behind her and she said,

1:31.0

playing with whatever the baby's name is. Yep, it's still Christmas at our house.

1:36.0

And so again, she hasn't taken down the Christmas tree and is still lighting it. You know what?

1:40.0

So, I mean, if it's up, you might as well turn it on. I guess that's true.

1:43.0

Man, I love Christmas, but also it stresses me out to put all the decorations up because you got to put all your normal decorations somewhere to make room for the Christmas decorations.

1:55.0

So it's like double duty.

1:57.0

Yeah, and then you have all this shit, I don't know. You should do like me and just move in the middle of Christmas so I never put any ornaments on my tree.

2:03.0

No, that's not true. You had one ornament.

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