Social psychology experiment shows us how our mind and behavior can change within hours. In the Stanford Prison Experiment the participant were expected to behave in a certain way in whatever situations given. However, did they imagine that the prisoners were going to lose their self by believing that they were real prisoners and start behaving as such and the guards started to act and believe that they were actual guards? That in itself shows how powerful the mind is.
The part that was the most surprising to me was to see how a person behavior can change within seconds in either a positive or negative way the prisoners do as they were told and even though this was an experiment they were influenced in believing