For example, in both events guards stripped inmates of their clothing and took their bedding out of their cells due to their unruly behavior. Furthermore, both had laws established by prison directors and enforced by guards. Instead, both of these events went through a period of psychoanalysis where they were presented with a problem and had to use free association and resistance to get information from the prisoners. For example, in both of these events the prison had people come and talk to the prisoners about what was happening. They also did this to prove their theory that different environments influence people's behavior, whether they are mentally healthy or not. Likewise, the attitudes between the guards and prisoners in both cases were the same. The attitude of the guards was as if they were untouchable only because they knew that the prisoners could not do anything about what was happening in the prisons. Furthermore, in both the Sanford prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, prisoners experienced the bystander effect. This is because a higher authority within the prison simply sat there and watched the prisoners as they were tortured, beaten, humiliated, raped and abused without trying to interfere to try to stop or calm the reckless behavior. However, motivation levels in both the experiment and the
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