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Adapted from  HYPERLINK /  and HYPERLINK /   HYPERLINK /wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment /wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment Psychology Overview WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organisms physical state, mental state, and external environment (Wade and Tarvis, 1990). Many psychologists spend their careers designing and performing research experiments to better understand how people behave in specific situations, how and why we think the way we do, and how emotions develop and what impact they have on ou