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It should be apparent that the elaborate procedures (and staging) employed by the experimenters to ensure a high degree of “mundane realism” in this mock prison contributed to its effective functional simulation of the psychological dynamics operating in “real” prisons. We observed empirical relationships in the simulated prison environment which were strikingly isomorphic to the internal relations of real prisons, corroborating many of the documented reports of what occurs behind prison walls. Most dramatic and distressing to us were the ease with which sadistic behavior could be elicited from individuals who were not “sadistic types” and the frequency with which acute emotional breakdowns could occur in persons selected precisely for their emotional stability.