Jun 8, 2004 · In 1971, a team of psychologists designed and executed an unusual experiment that used a mock prison setting, with college students role-playing prisoners and guards to test …

Jun 4, 2019 · New revelations from a detailed analysis of the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) archives challenge (a) the study’s scientific validity and Philip Zimbardo’s creative-evil, …

Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is also president of the Heroic Imagination Project, which teaches people how to overcome the …

Dr. Zimbardo talks about his Heroic Imagination Project, what he would change about the Stanford Prison Experiment and who he’d like to see play him in the upcoming feature film on …

Prison abuses The same social psychological processes--deindividualization, anonymity of place, dehumanization, role-playing and social modeling, moral disengagement and group conformity …

Mar 1, 2002 · A German movie claiming ties to the Stanford Prison Experiment spurs controversy over when reality ends and fiction begins.

The Stanford prison experiment taught us important lessons about the potential for prisoner abuse, even at the hands of ordinary and stable guards. It demonstrated, once again, the …

Apr 19, 2021 · Craig Haney, PhD, has researched solitary confinement extensively as part of the larger project of his career, which is using psychology to effect meaningful, humane reform of …

Haslam and Reicher conducted a version of the Stanford Prison Experiment televised by the British Broadcasting Service in 2002, showing that participants didn't automatically conform to …

Authority and peer pressure can lead people to disregard their actions' potential harm. In 1971, Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, conducted a simulated jail study known as the Stanford Prison …