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Hi, I'm Logan here with my wife Diana in Portland, Maine and we're big today explained listeners and

today's very exciting day because

Diana got me a quip toothbrush as a wedding anniversary gift

She got it from get quip.com slash explained and tonight we're gonna open up the box and I'm gonna try it out

Brian Resnick science reporter here at Vox. I feel like I heard a bunch about the Stanford prison experiment in college

And then I pretty much forgot about it and then suddenly this summer. It's been everywhere. I see it in the news everywhere

What is this thing Brian? What's what's going on? The Stanford prison experiment is a part of this group of studies that are trying to explain evil

It's 1971 and where it's Stanford University and Philips and Bartow is a

researcher there he's wondering what is it that brings out bad behavior in people and the working

hypothesis going into the Stanford prison study is that

It's circumstance that some of us are put into positions of power and some of us are put in positions of weakness and

in those circumstances

Natural thing happens where the people in power abuse the people who are

In less power so

This Stanford prison experiment kind of really went for this

They constructed a mock prison in the basement of Stanford psychology building and they recruited this group of young men

They got paid around $15 a day and the participants were randomly sorted into different groups

Half of them became the guards of this prison responsible for keeping the prisoners in line and half of them were prisoners

So it started off with the prisoners getting arrested and like a mock arrest

It was a real cop car was a real policeman and there were real neighbors in the street

We didn't know that I was

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