Stanford ‘prisoner’: Yacco part of psychology experiment 40 years ago today

August 17, 2011 • Kim Mejia-Cuellar  
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Richard Yacco is now Media Academy’s TV & Radio teacher, but 40 years ago, he was a college student who agreed to be a prisoner for an experiment. In the summer of 1971, a group of Stanford college students had to simulate a prison environment. They were randomly divided into prisoners and... Read more »