Philip Zimbardo, who has died aged 91, was a psychologist whose studies included work on shyness, the psychological roots of evil and the effects of the past on decision-making; but he was best known ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971 Credit - Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries. In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford ...

A new documentary series on the study challenges us to reimagine what we’ve learned The summer before his freshmen year of college, in 1971, Clay Ramsay lived with a few buddies just a few steps from ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: ...

The infamous Stanford Prison experiment (SPE), conducted in 1971—in which Philip Zimbardo recruited young men to become either "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison, with disastrous results—has ...

Participants from a notorious psychological experiment that shocked America have reunited more than 50 years later for The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking The Truth, a new three-part docuseries ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was ...

“The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth,” an amazing account, is all set to air Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m./7 p.m. on the National Geographic channel and ready to stream the next day on ...