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0Philip Zimbardo, psychologist who led Stanford prison experiment, dies at 91
The study, aborted because of concern for participants, made Dr. Zimbardo one of the best-known and most controversial psychologists of his era.
Oct 18, 2024, The Washington Post
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Philip G. Zimbardo, a Stanford University social psychologist whose aborted 1971 experiment, employing college students to play prison guards and inmates, became one of the most controversial episodes in modern psychology and yielded disturbing insights into the effect of stress on human behavior, died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. He was 91.
Stanford announced the death but did not provide a cause.
In a career spanning five decades, Dr. Zimbardo served as president of the American Psychological Association and pursued research on topics including shyness, the psychological roots of evil and the way dwelling on the past can affect decision-making. At the “core” of his interest, he told the publication Psychology Today, was “the process of transformation of human nature.”
To his chagrin, his prison experiment was the one that garnered the greatest attention, including questions about the ethics of that study. His findings on de-individuation — relinquishing one’s own identity to that of a group — were used by scholars and psychologists seeking to understand genocide in Rwanda, the rise of Nazism in Germany and other atrocities.
