This was unreplicable for several reasons. First, "prisoners" were not protected from the "guards," which cannot be allowed ...

Two decades on from the 7/7 attacks, London’s approach to public safety has undergone a quiet but significant transformation.

The Democratic candidate for mayor of New York embodies a style of politics that values personality and "vibes" over policy ...

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Psychological experiments have played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of human behaviour. From revealing the ...

Nat Geo’s new three-part documentary revisits Philip Zimbardo’s controversial saga from 1971, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of ...

Zimbardo's version of events has long dominated the prevailing understanding of the Stanford Prison Experiment, even though some of the original participants have frequently tried to counter that ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos after college students ...

In the 1971 prison study, Zimbardo and a team of graduate students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the Stanford campus.

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