Philip Zimbardo

Philip Zimbardo

Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Zimbardo has received more than 2,747,729 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Philip Zimbardo is the 46th most popular psychologist (up from 54th in 2019), the 612th most popular biography from United States (up from 758th in 2019) and the 18th 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.