Put in the right circumstances, every human being has the potential to be a sadist. In "The Stanford Prison Experiment", Phillip G. Zimbardo examines how easily people can slip into roles and become sadistic to the people around them, even going so far as to develop a sense of supremacy. He does this by explaining the results of his experiment that he created to understand more about the effects that imprisonment has on prisoners, and …showed first 75 words of 1518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1518 total…of a prison-like atmosphere coupled with authorization, dehumanization, and routinization creates a recipe for unimaginable torture. Works Cited: Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne. "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 9th Edition. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. 302-304. Zimbardo, Philip G. "The Stanford Prison Experiment." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 9th Edition. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. 344-355.