“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote a young psychology professor at Stanford University in 1971. “We are often ...

Philip Zimbardo, who has died aged 91, was a psychologist whose studies included work on shyness, the psychological roots of evil and the effects of the past on decision-making; but he was best known ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford ...