What causes seemingly good, ordinary people to go bad? In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo took a crack at that question with his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, enlisting two dozen ...

You don’t need a psychology degree to have heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment. The famed research-endeavor-turned-nightmare earned ample publicity after it concluded in August 1971. By design, ...

Worst of all, this didn't occur in an actual prison, but in a simulation. The prisoners and the guards were college students, all of whom had replied to a nondescript classified ad: "Male college ...

Professor Emeritus of Psychology Philip Zimbardo, known for his role in the Stanford Prison Experiment, is releasing a new book on why young men are struggling socially and academically (Courtesy of ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, died at 91 on Oct. 14. Zimbardo’s legacy lives on through his research over five decades, spanning mind control, ...

His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised ethical questions. By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering ...

Since its inception nearly 47 years ago, the Stanford Prison Experiment has become a kind of grim psychological touchstone, an object lesson in humans' hidden ability to act sadistically -- or ...

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

The controversial scientist behind the Stanford prison experiment has defended the study following claims it was all based on lies and held little scientific value. The study professed to show humans ...