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 ...
It started as a simple test of role-play and compliance, an attempt to understand how placing a randomized sample could affect behavior. What happened next changed experiments forever. It started as a ...
SAN FRANCISCO — 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 ...