Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial « Stanford Prison Experiment » that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment,.
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. Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. 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.
