The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

Directors

Kyle Patrick Alvarez

Cast

Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Nelsan Ellis

The story

Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a psychological experiment to investigate the hypothesis that roles in social situations, rather than individual personality traits, cause participants' behavior. In the experiment, Zimbardo selects eighteen male students to participate in a 14-day prison simulation to take roles as prisoners or guards. They receive $15 per day.

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