Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study, in which participants acting as guards began to abuse other participants who were role-playing as prisoners, could not be replicated today, because it caused too much:

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Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study caused both physical and psychological harm to the participants, with some prisoners experiencing extreme emotional distress and some guards engaging in abusive behavior. Therefore, choice C best describes the type of harm that was caused by the study. While the study was conducted in a different time period, it is unlikely that it would be approved by an ethics committee today due to the potential harm that could result from such a study.

Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Study, in Which Participants Acting as Guards