A new movie about the Stanford Prison Experiment opens tonight, based on the famous experiment run by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1971, Zimbardo set up a mock prison in a basement of the Stanford ...

From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions ...

Don’t get too excited. No one (that I know of, anyway) has replicated Zimbardo’s classic Stanford Prison Experiment from the early 1970s. What has happened is that a new film version of the ...

Fifty years ago this month I conducted a research experiment that could have been a blight to my career. Instead, what has become known as the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) drove me to extensively ...

National Geographic has revealed the trailer for The Stanford Prison Experiment, Unlocking The Truth, which will premiere on National Geographic (DStv 181 and Startimes 220) across Africa on Sundays ...

The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...