We all want to believe in our inner power, our sense of personal agency, to resist external situational forces of the kinds operating in this Stanford Prison Experiment. . . . For many, that belief of personal power to resist powerful situational and systemic forces is little more than a reassuring illusion of invulnerability.
—Philip Zimbardo
You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers.
—Corrections Corporation of America cofounder Thomas Beasley
We all want to believe in our inner power, our sense of personal agency, to resist external situational forces of the kinds operating in this Stanford Prison Experiment. . . . For many, that belief of personal power to resist powerful situational and systemic forces is little more than a reassuring illusion of invulnerability.
You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers.
—Corrections Corporation of America cofounder Thomas Beasley
