In 1971, 24 young male volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of "inmates" and "guards" in a pretend prison in the basement of Stanford University's psychology department. The situation ...

In the 1971 prison study, Zimbardo and a team of graduate students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the Stanford campus.

For a few days in 1971, some dudes at a Northern California college pulled some zany stunts in a basement and we’re still talking about it. No, this had nothing to do with playing Jefferson ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.

An infamous ‘prison’ in a university basement. You’ve likely heard of the Stanford prison experiment. In 1971, 24 young male volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of “inmates” and “guards” in ...

In 1971, 24 young male volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of “inmates” and “guards” in a pretend prison in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology department. The ...