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.

The original 1971 experiment, conducted by Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo, recruited two dozen male college students for a study advertised as "a psychological study of prison ...

Philip Zimbardo's 1971 Stanford University experiment, employing college students to play prison guards and inmates, became one of the most controversial episodes in modern psychology.

How Unlocking the Truth furthers the case against the Stanford Prison Experiment. Le Texier, who published his findings in an American Psychologist article and the book Investigating the Stanford ...

Stanford psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” dies at 91 FILE - Dr. Philip Zimbardo attends the "The Stanford Prison Experiment" premiere on Wednesday, July 15 ...

An artful new documentary sheds new light even for those familiar with the infamous experiment, Scott McLemee writes. The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth—a limited series that just ...

The "Stanford prison experiment" - conducted in Palo Alto, Calif. 40 years ago - was conceived by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo as a way to use ordinary college students to explore the often volatile ...

Andy Kropa. FILE - Dr. Philip Zimbardo attends the "The Stanford Prison Experiment" premiere on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) ...

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 91. Stanford ...

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.