Think you know what really happens behind bars? From record-breaking jailbreaks and shocking prison experiments to brutal ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of abuse and suicide that can be disturbing and/or triggering for some readers. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and several student ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment is possibly the most famous psychological experiment of all time, an insane role-playing game gone horribly wrong thanks to nylon stockings, fire extinguishers, and a ...

If you took psychology courses in college, you probably remember the "Stanford prison experiment," which monitored the behavior of 18 students assigned to play the roles of guards or inmates in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth—a limited series that just premiered on the National Geographic channel and is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu—represents at least the sixth time the ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

National Geographic's latest docuseries, "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth," features a groundbreaking look at one of history's most notorious psychological studies. The series ...

Science historian with a specific interest in the history of social psychology., The University of Melbourne A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges ...

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 ...