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 ...

“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 ...

Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971 Credit - Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries. In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford ...

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 ...