It may be that factors of the prison situation interacted with the personality factors of the volunteers to create the abuses that arose during Zimbardo's experiment.

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The Stanford prison experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo, showed how the social context and assigned roles within a simulated prison environment could interact with individual personalities to produce extreme behaviors, including abuses, among participants.

It May Be That Factors of the Prison Situation Interacted