{"shapes": [{"geometry": {"y": 0.1532567049808429, "x": 0.954639175257732, "height": 0.04214559386973182, "width": 0.03711340206185565}, "type": "rect"}], "src": "http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-be339dffc1eb5cee85b54ed08f07b8eb?convert_to_webp=true", "comment": "The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated the tendency of people to stick to a certain ideology and deference to authority. By locking people in prison.\n\n24 males were randomly selected, some assigned prisoners and some assigned the prison guards. Prisoners had to remain for 24 hours in the cell, while guards were assigned to work in three-man teams for 8-hour shifts.\n\nWithin a few hours, everything went haywire. The guards took their positions too seriously, seriously verbally and psychologically abusing the prisoners. They would also physically punish the prisoners for errors. The guards eventually forced the prisoners to urinate and defecate in a bucket placed in the cell, took away their mattresses and forced them to sleep on the hard concrete, and made many of them sleep naked as a method of degradation.\n\nThe guards grew increasingly cruel over the six days that the experiment took place, and it was estimated that about 1/3 of them exhibited sadistic tendencies. Most of the prisoners accepted their roles as inferiors, and quietly submitted to the torture. Those who stood up were starved and isolated.\n\nBoth prisoners and the guards adapted to their roles \"better\" than anyone expected, leading to some dangerous and psychologically scarring situations. In fact, two of the prisoners had to leave early because they were suffering too badly from their treatment.\n\nThis is how you turn normal people into sadistic torturers. Merely by giving them a position of power. Terrifying, but illuminating.", "context": "http://testapp.swtr.us/annotate?where=http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-be339dffc1eb5cee85b54ed08f07b8eb?convert_to_webp=true"}