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Fun Fact: The Stanford Computer Science Department was (mostly) housed in Margaret Jacks Hall from 1980 - 1996, and if you went down to the basement where the department's mainframes and Arpanet IMP and phototypesetters lived, just around the corner were the "cells" where the Prison Experiment took place. Creepy.

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:( This is even worse considering that the prison experiments turned out to be highly influenced by Zimbardo and eventually his wife put a stop to him more or less telling the guards to abuse the prisoners

Basically it’s a sca

Edit: source https://scribe.usc.edu/the-stanford-prison-experiment-a-sham...

It's not hard to find the hall. Grad student offices now, I believe.

So they still harbor the same amount of mental and emotional strain, is what you're saying?

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