The Work of Philip Zimbardo

Philip Zimbardo, a professor emeritus of psychology who taught thousands at Stanford, died in October 2024.

Psychology and Life
All Right Now

Psychology and Life

Remembering Professor Philip Zimbardo.

by Summer Moore Batte

The Psychology of Heroism
Campus

The Psychology of Heroism

Can we be trained to be saviors? Psychology professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo aims to find out.

by Diana Aguilera

Zimbardo Unbound
Features

Zimbardo Unbound

Long after his notorious prison experiment and soon after the Abu Ghraib scandal, the famous psychologist lobbies for a greater understanding of how evil systems subvert good people.

by Marina Krakovsky

The Menace Within
Features

The Menace Within

What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers from the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?

by Romesh Ratnesar