A new three-part Nat Geo series titled "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" takes a closer look at what happened at one of the 20th century's most infamous academic researches.
A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment ...
Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie, published recently in English, documents serious limitations of the study – including that student “guards” were actually coached to ...
A groundbreaking look at one of history's most notorious psychology studies through the firsthand accounts of the original prisoners and guards, many of whom are speaking on camera for the very ...
In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
There, I met (and spoke with) my first psychology celebrity, one of the legends in our field: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford prison experiment fame. In a small room with an audience of no more than ...
From that point onward, producers were instructed to pursue on-camera confrontations — and for a while, Dominick's method got results. In 1998, Springer even beat out Oprah Winfrey in the ratings for ...