“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote ...

Philip Zimbardo discusses a study on the psychology of imprisonment he launched in 1971 with 24 male undergraduates randomly assigned to be either a guard or a prisoner. The study is depicted in ...

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.

Their stories unravel a narrative that interrogates the motives of the man in charge, Dr. Philip Zimbardo, while exploring larger questions of human nature and the power of perspective.