A new movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment opens tonight, based on the famous experiment run by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, Zimbardo set up a mock prison in a basement of the Stanford ...

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In 1971, a psychology experiment led by Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo simulated a prison environment to study how situational factors affect human behavior. The experiment ...

A new National Geographic series will feature interviews with former prisoners and guards from the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment that took place in 1971. The three-part series, “The Stanford ...

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 ...

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 ...

Participants from a notorious psychological experiment that shocked America have reunited more than 50 years later for The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking The Truth, a new three-part docuseries ...

The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 ...

The infamous Stanford Prison experiment (SPE), conducted in 1971—in which Philip Zimbardo recruited young men to become either "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison, with disastrous results—has ...

The former Stanford student who was convicted of 3 counts of sexual assault believes he didn't get a fair trial ...