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. Philip Zimbardo, a pioneering Stanford ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

* Nov. 20, Thursday -- In her talk, "Psychology: Made in the USA," social psychologist Hazel Rose Markus of Stanford University will discuss cultural differences in psychology. She says the strong ...

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 ...