Fernandez: The Crowning of Kings
In 1971, Stanford University conducted its infamous prison experiment, wherein researchers arbitrarily chose 24 male undergraduates to each play the role of either prisoner or guard. Stanford sought to discover how these students would cope with the superimposition of power or powerlessness. Six days later, the guards had so thoroughly internalized their superiority within the space of the mock-prison that they began inflicting psychological and physical torture upon the prisoners. The results were, in short, so heinous that the experiment was immediately discontinued.