Shue was relieved to be assigned the role of a prisoner, a position most participants assumed would be less taxing. The ...

A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study ...

A new three-part Nat Geo series titled "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" takes a closer look at what happened at one of the 20th century's most infamous academic researches. It ...

Through new interviews with participants and clips of the so-called “Stanford County Prison,” the first episode provides a chronology of the experiment that is largely faithful to Zimbardo’s ...

There, I met (and spoke with) my first psychology celebrity, one of the legends in our field: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford ...

Zimbardo died last month at 91, but his controversial legacy continues to resonate some 50 years later with The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, a new documentary from National ...

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 ...

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” was on my hit parade list as an ​8-year-old in 1943. It was a catchy tune advising that Santa “… knows if you’ve been bad or good ...

National Geographic’s latest docuseries, The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, delves into one of psychology’s most debated studies. The series, premiering November 13 ...

While the experiment had been egregiously unethical, it did prove that circumstances have the power to make normal people act like tyrants—or what Zimbardo has called “the power of the situation.” So ...