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The experiment that proved ordinary people could turn into monsters
In the summer of 1971, a group of ordinary college students walked into a mock prison set up in the basement of Stanford University's psychology department, and within days, something deeply ...
Researchers use small tricks to get experiments to work. Source: Photo by Kyle Loftus from Pexels. How do you get a psychology experiment to work? A new paper in the journal Collabra: Psychology by ...
People naturally experience a quiet sense of joy when witnessing a disliked rival suffer a sudden misfortune. A recent ...
His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised ethical questions. By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering ...
As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department.
Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...
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 ...
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