Jun 8, 2004 · In 1971, a team of psychologists designed and executed an unusual experiment that used a mock prison setting, with college students role-playing prisoners and guards to test the power of …

Jun 4, 2019 · New revelations from a detailed analysis of the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) archives challenge (a) the study’s scientific validity and Philip Zimbardo’s creative-evil, situationist narrative for …

Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is also president of the Heroic Imagination Project, which teaches people how to overcome the natural human tendency …

Haslam and Reicher conducted a version of the Stanford Prison Experiment televised by the British Broadcasting Service in 2002, showing that participants didn't automatically conform to their …

Prison abuses The same social psychological processes--deindividualization, anonymity of place, dehumanization, role-playing and social modeling, moral disengagement and group conformity--that …

Apr 19, 2021 · Craig Haney, PhD, has researched solitary confinement extensively as part of the larger project of his career, which is using psychology to effect meaningful, humane reform of the criminal …

Dr. Zimbardo talks about his Heroic Imagination Project, what he would change about the Stanford Prison Experiment and who he’d like to see play him in the upcoming feature film on the historic study.

A movie on the Stanford Prison Experiment won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.

Mar 1, 2002 · A German movie claiming ties to the Stanford Prison Experiment spurs controversy over when reality ends and fiction begins.

Authority and peer pressure can lead people to disregard their actions' potential harm. In 1971, Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, conducted a simulated jail study known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Mirroring …