Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?! Chapter 375 - 370: Out-of-Control Experiment2

[The prison guards wearing sunglasses busily moved things around and then began punishing the prisoners.]

[The prisoners in prison uniforms collectively lay face down on the ground doing push-ups. Then so started wiping the toilets with towels, and so knelt on the ground to polish the guards’ shoes, while the guards swaggered around inspecting.]

The background audio begins, featuring the narrative of a prison guard.

Nan Zhubin continues translating: "A prison guard volunteer said, ’I started to lose all sympathy and respect for them, treating them as harshly as possible, convincing myself to treat these volunteers like prisoners of a lower status than .’"

The scene shifts again.

[Outside the cell, a prisoner once again displayed an uncooperative attitude, and the prison guards repeatedly tapped the cell with batons to warn him.]

[In the cramped room, a neatly dressed white person talked with the prisoners. Except for the uncooperative prisoner, all the volunteers began venting to the white person.]

"After the family visit, on the evening of the third day, a dedicated prison chaplain was invited to the simulated prison to assess the authenticity of the situation."

"The chaplain talked with the volunteers one by one and found that more than half of them only called themselves by their ’prisoner number’ instead of their na during self-introduction. When asked why they were in prison, most prisoner volunteers answered with the cri declared by the local police when arrested rather than ’for an experint.’"

"During the process, the chaplain asked the volunteers if they had made any efforts to get released. After receiving negative replies, the chaplain promised to contact lawyers for the volunteers to help them exercise their civil liberties."

The students had an obvious reaction to the scenes in the video once again.

Li Mingchen and Lin Junkai occasionally tilted their heads to glance at Nan Zhubin and Teacher Xiao Zhao.

The other students fidgeted uncomfortably, as if ants were crawling all over them.

The video scene changes once more.

There is both image and sound. But this ti, even the students who don’t understand English couldn’t help but feel goosebumps.

[Prisoners in white prison uniforms lined up against the wall, uniformly shouting slogans. Their expressions were numb and vacant, and their bodies swayed.]

[The prison guards laughed heartily as they listened to the content of their chants.]

[A young man cried in his room.]

"When the prison chaplain arrived, there was an uncooperative prisoner with the number ’819’ on his prison uniform. The guards, during routine roll call, made everyone shout ’Prisoner 819 did a bad thing’ repeatedly."

Nan Zhubin pointed at the screen: "Every volunteer chanting seed utterly convinced."

"At this point, the professor checked on volunteer number 819 and found him hiding in his cell crying."

"The professor asked volunteer number 819 if he wanted to quit the experint, but 819 refused. He stated that he was a prisoner and could not leave here."

Nan Zhubin spoke slowly and deliberately: "At this mont, the professor realized that he had been calling this volunteer by his number. Only when he called out the volunteer’s na did the participant suddenly realize and then withdraw from the experint."

While this part of the video was playing.

Nan Zhubin could feel the frequent gazes of those around him directed at him and Teacher Xiao Zhao.

...

The video scene switches again.

[A completely naked prisoner wears a hood, supporting his hands on the wall, facing away from the guards.]

[The prisoner paces back and forth under the gaze of the guards, waving his hands and feet like a madman, while the guards laugh heartily.]

Nan Zhubin continues explaining.

At this point, although his tone had not changed compared to before, it sohow beca more impactful.

"The experint reached the fourth day."

"Because so volunteers quit the experint, Professor Zimbardo added a ’substitute prisoner’ to the simulated prison. This newly arrived prisoner volunteer was routinely required to undergo a check nude, change clothes, and endure a set of punishnts. Unsurprisingly, he expressed resistance and even opposition, considering the experint excessive."

"His ’cellmates’ displayed exclusion towards him, labeling him a ’troubleso prisoner.’"

"During breaks in the experint, guards began making the prisoners perform skits, sing, and other acts. All prisoners complied without exception."

"That evening, the professor spoke with each prisoner volunteer, offering them the opportunity to ’bail out’ by forgoing their experintal paynt. Each volunteer agreed; however, after returning to the prison environnt, no one brought up ending the experint again."

...

During Nan Zhubin’s explanation.

The projector continued playing the docuntary of the experint.

Images of guards ridiculing and punishing prisoners kept rolling.

The student sitting to the left of Teacher Xiao Zhao suddenly bowed their head frequently, avoiding the screen and covering their mouth with a hand.

Nan Zhubin ticulously captured this mont.

——Beep.

He indicated for Teacher Xiao Zhao to press the remote control. The video had already showcased more than enough.

The remaining content lacked visual impact.

...

The students stared blankly at the now dark projector, as if they had not yet recovered from what was just shown.

After quite a while, the students woke as if from a dream, turning around one after another.

They instinctively adopted defensive postures, crossing arms, clenching hands, or curling up.

With the video finished, Nan Zhubin concluded the experint verbally.

His tone resembled a data report, lacking nearly any emotion:

"On the fifth day of the experint, the previously invited prison chaplain had the volunteers’ parents bring lawyers to the prison in an attempt to rescue the volunteers. They found that it was ’just’ an experint and that the prisoner volunteers participated voluntarily, thus feeling powerless."

Visibly, the students’ sense of curling up intensified.

"Until the sixth day, experinters found on surveillance that the guards behaved more brutally towards the prisoners at night, nearing ’torture’; moreover, another professor from Stanford visited the experint, startled to see volunteers wearing shackles, hoods, and facing physical punishnt, raising a strong protest."

"Finally, under the leadership of Professor Zimbardo, the experint was terminated."

Sigh—

Nan Zhubin paused here.

As expected, waves of deep breaths followed.

Or rather——sighs of relief.

...

This Stanford Prison Experint consud a considerable amount of ti.

The original docuntary was nearly an hour long.

For the purpose of his Group Counseling, Nan Zhubin had significantly edited and intermittently played it.

Nonetheless, along with the playback and comntary, it still took over half an hour.

However, as Nan Zhubin scanned the students’ faces one by one, expressions that differed widely at the start of the Group Counseling now began to converge.

This was excellent news.

Nan Zhubin waited for a while, giving the students ti to digest and calm their emotions.

Then he slowly spoke: "This was an experint conducted in the seventies, at Stanford University, organized by a psychology professor, with Stanford University students as volunteers."

"Ultimately, the experint was halted in less than a week due to loss of control."

Nan Zhubin surveyed the students: "Now, does anyone have any thoughts regarding the content of the video?"

"Please think about it and describe your current feelings in one word, then share it with us."