PSYCHOLOGIST

Philip Zimbardo

1933 - 2024

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Philip George Zimbardo (; March 23, 1933 – October 14, 2024) was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored more than 500 articles, chapters, textbooks, and trade books covering a wide range of topics, including time perspective, cognitive dissonance, the psychology of evil, persuasion, cults, deindividuation, shyness, and heroism. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Zimbardo has received more than 2,923,371 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Philip Zimbardo is the 66th most popular psychologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 1,067th most popular biography from United States (down from 612th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Psychologist.

Philip Zimbardo is most famous for his Stanford Prison Experiment. In the experiment, Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department and assigned volunteers to be either guards or prisoners. The experiment was supposed to last two weeks, but it was terminated after six days because the guards became so abusive.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Philip Zimbardo ranks 66 out of 235. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Geert Hofstede, Karl Abraham, Stanislav Grof, Leon Festinger, and Alice Miller. After him are Margaret Mahler, Ernst Kretschmer, Otto Rank, Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, and Ernst Heinrich Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Philip Zimbardo ranks 61. Before him are Wilbur Smith, Ilia II of Georgia, Cormac McCarthy, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, John Gurdon, and Tomislav Ivić. After him are Mathieu Kérékou, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Horst Buchholz, Edmund Phelps, Henryk Górecki, and Richard S. Castellano. Among people deceased in 2024, Philip Zimbardo ranks 50. Before him are Leon Cooper, James Earl Jones, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Maurizio Pollini, Bengt I. Samuelsson, and Roberto Cavalli. After him are Marcello Gandini, David Soul, Ira von Fürstenberg, Robin Warren, Richard Serra, and Shelley Duvall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Zimbardo ranks 1,067 out of 20,380. Before him are James Jones (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), L. Frank Baum (1856), and Russell Alan Hulse (1950). After him are Jack Kemp (1935), Virginia Satir (1916), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Joel Schumacher (1939), Dred Scott (1795), and Hilary Putnam (1926).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Philip Zimbardo ranks 22. Before him are Albert Ellis (1913), Martin Seligman (1942), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Stanley Milgram (1933), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), and Leon Festinger (1919). After him are Mary Ainsworth (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), Jean Tatlock (1914), and G. Stanley Hall (1846).

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