prison photo 7: rat experiment

solitary confinement in oklahoma

In a famous psychological study conducted in ’86, mental health researches held an experiment to see the effects of crowded conditions on rats. As they added more rats to the once normally functioning "community," things changed. The rats became stressed out and violent, and developed nervous twitches as well as eating disorders.

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