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

The Stanford prison experiment conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo in that university’s basement in 1971 should be familiar to anyone who’s cracked a psychology textbook in the last 40 years.

This question is particularly interesting today, as instances of police brutality continue to make news around the world. Let's take a more in depth look at this experiment and its implications.

The NFL is entering its 2025 season, which means we're a quarter of the way through this century of football. All week long, ...

Life can get disheartening. We protested for the pro-choice (note: not pro-abortion) movement, yet women throughout the USA continue to lose choice (and the pundits ask why the birthrate is declining.

In an electronic communication sent from jail and reported by TMZ, the accused CEO killer listed 27 things he is grateful for.

I n 1973, Dr. Philip Zimbardo carried out one of the most controversial experiments in history: the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo and his team wanted to understand why there was such brutality ...

In a letter to faculty and staff, Stanford University announced $140 million in budget cuts for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year, which it said will require staff layoffs.

As Children's Hospital Los Angeles scales back healthcare for trans youth, Stanford Medicine has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients younger than 19.

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...