He accrued a long list of accolades, but his singular and enduring contribution to scholarship was the Stanford Prison Experiment, a simulation carried out in the university’s psychology department in ...

Novels about women’s communities tend toward utopian coexistence or ruthless backbiting. "The Unworthy" does something more ...

In 2015, Kyle Patrick Alvarez made a cinematic retelling of the experiment, called The Stanford ... of real events, Netflix’s Black Warrant explored the psychological nuances of life in prison ...

As an undergraduate psychology major at Pennsylvania State University, Larisa Solomon had an observation that seemed to her ...

Unmasking the dark side of psychology, these books expose manipulation, power, and deception, forcing a rethink of human ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, dives into the psychology of evil in this chilling book. By analysing real-world atrocities and social experiments ...

Do you trust too easily? Scammers, bad bosses, and smooth talkers thrive on our blind spots and deaf spots. How can we get ...

Similarly, in the 1938 War of the Worlds radio panic, millions believed a fictional broadcast about an alien invasion because it came in the format of real news. Some even fled their homes.

For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s ...

From Orange Is The New Black to some of Louis Theroux's documentaries, there have been a range of prison-themed TV shows - both fictional and real ... in Elstree. Stanford experiment prisoners ...