“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's most famous experiments.

Their stories unravel a new narrative that interrogates the motives of the man in charge, the late Dr. Philip Zimbardo, while exploring larger questions of human nature and the power of perspective.

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.

The broken windows theory, defined in 1982 by social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling, drawing on earlier research by Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo, argues that no ...

Philip Zimbardo discusses a study on the psychology of imprisonment he launched in 1971 with 24 male undergraduates randomly assigned to be either a guard or a prisoner. The study is depicted in ...

Their stories unravel a narrative that interrogates the motives of the man in charge, Dr. Philip Zimbardo, while exploring larger questions of human nature and the power of perspective.