PSYC 1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stanford Prison Experiment, Cognitive Dissonance, Deindividuation

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1023
• Professor: Champod Anne- Sophie

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