The name Philip Zimbardo may not mean a lot to most people, but if I say ‘the Stanford Prison Experiment’ then you may start to know who I mean. Born in 1933, Zimbardo died in October last year.

“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 ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" in which participants playing prison ...

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.