Two decades on from the 7/7 attacks, London’s approach to public safety has undergone a quiet but significant transformation.

Pioneering and controversial psychologist Philip Zimbardo passed away in 2024. In this remembrance, we revisit his talk on how our sense of time plays a powerful role in shaping our outlook on life.

Dr Philip Zimbardo: can his work teach us anything today? A new drama film, The Stanford Prison Experiment, shows in claustrophobic detail how very wrong things went.

This year, we lost three giants in the psychological science community, all relevant to our work here at Greater Good. Frans de Waal, Daniel Kahneman, and Philip Zimbardo each passed away in 2024, ...

The men had responded to an ad from Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo seeking volunteers for "a psychological study of prison life", said The New Yorker.

Nat Geo’s new three-part documentary revisits Philip Zimbardo’s controversial saga from 1971, but it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

Doug was one of the 24 participants of Professor Philip Zimbardo's notorious 1971 experiment He said: 'I thought this was a bad job, these people won't let me out, so I've got to be creative.

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of ...

Philip Zimbardo/CC BY-SA 4.0 Guards gather in the hallway of the original Stanford Prison Experiment. Guy Miller Archives/Palo Alto Historical Society/Ken Yimm A prisoners' lineup.

The psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo in 1971, the year he conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment. Seeking a novel way to study how situations can transform behavior, he set up a prison in the ...