In 1963, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.' prisons. The study was run by a group of researchers at Stanford, led by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo. The idea was to create a controlled environment in the Stanford halls to simulate a prison.
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One of the most lasting lesson from this experiment is the extremes to which "normal" humans will behave in given circumstances. Check-out the Milgram experiements which also illustrate this point.
Milgram experiment
Along these same lines an arguement can be made that these same types of indoctrination and obediance that lead to the creation of the war criminals in Nazi Germany around the time of WWII. These types of psychological phenomena help to explain how "typical" young-men could be turned into murderers.
Another interesting point about these studies is that they would NEVER be allowed by IRB's today:
IRB FAQ
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