“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 ...

Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo's 1971 study supposedly demonstrated that decent, ordinary individuals are apt to cruelly mistreat people when given authority over them ...