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Psych Experiment Hones in on Heroism

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of a notorious psychology experiment. The Stanford Prison Experiment showed that normal, well-adjusted people could be cruel, even sadistic under the right circumstances. Now, the scientist who led those experiments is wondering whether the opposite is true.

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