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Concepts

Stanford Prison Experiment - A landmark 1971 psychology study demonstrating how situational forces and assigned roles can dramatically alter human behavior, even leading ordinary people to act cruelly.
Will to Power - Nietzsche's concept of the fundamental drive toward growth, overcoming, and self-mastery.
Panopticon - Jeremy Bentham's prison design, later Foucault's metaphor, in which the mere possibility of constant unseen observation induces self-discipline, modeling surveillance and power.
Information Asymmetry - A situation where one party has more or better information than another, creating imbalanced dynamics.
Plausible Deniability - Plausible deniability is the ability of a person, often a leader, to credibly deny knowledge of or responsibility for an action because information was deliberately structured so that no evidence links them to it.