PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Lazarwicz

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