I n 1973, Dr. Philip Zimbardo carried out one of the most controversial experiments in history: the Stanford Prison ...

During summer break, 38-year-old psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, ostensibly looking to investigate the effects of depersonalization and unearned authority, dressed a basement at Stanford ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of ...

Philip Zimbardo/CC BY-SA 4.0 Guards gather in the hallway of the original Stanford Prison Experiment. Guy Miller Archives/Palo Alto Historical Society/Ken Yimm A prisoners' lineup.

The psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo in 1971, the year he conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment. Seeking a novel way to study how situations can transform behavior, he set up a prison in the ...

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 ...

Philip Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, died in October 2024. He is pictured here in 1994. Courtesy L.A. Cicero via Stanford University.

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, architect of the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment,’ is dead at 91 Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo attends an event in New York in 2015.

Chief architect of this landmark and controversial study — known as the "Stanford Prison Experiment" — was Philip G. Zimbardo, who died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco, according to ...