Regarding the Stanford Prison study, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Philip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison study in which he paid normal healthy male college students to serve as "inmates" and "guards" in a simulated prison.
b. The students were selected to play the roles of "prisoners" and "guards" based on personality profiles.
c. The ascribed social roles of prisoner and guard were so powerful that in just a few days the experiment became "reality" for those involved.
d. After just six days, the experiment had to be halted.


B

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