How did changes in intellectual inquiry during the 17th century change how people began to view their world?

B. A person's capacity for good or evil can change based on their social environment.

Explanation:

According to a different source, these are the options that come with this question:

A. People will continue to do bad things if they know they can blame it on their social surroundings.

B. A person's capacity for good or evil can change based on their social environment.

C. Social experiments are necessary to determine humanity’s capacity for evil.

D. Evil actions are justified if a person is in a challenging social situation.

Phillip Zimbardo is an American psychologist who is best known for his famous 1971 experiment Stanford prison experiment. In this experiment, subjects were labelled "guards" or "prisoners," and were asked to embrace these roles. The struggle between the two groups resulted in abuses of power and psychological torture in many cases, with people becoming emboldened by their newly-found authority. The experiment showed that people are not necessarily "good" or "evil." Instead, a person's capacity for good or evil can change based on their social environment.