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A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment         'The Education of a Torturer' is an account of experiments that has similar results to that of Milgram's obedience experimentsthat were performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically, both have one grim outcome, that is that, 'it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who become the Eichmanns of history.'         The Stanford experiment was performed by psychologists Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, and Philip Zimbardo. Their goal was to find …

…anytime that I have seen somebody not take advantage of the power given to them in some way or form.         Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo did have one good thing come out of this experiment. That is that they used ordinary people just like Milgram years earlier and put them to the test. They subjects obviously failed because all of them showed that, 'it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who become the Eichmanns of history.'