Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that aimed to look at the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91 years previous.
Stanford University introduced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his residence in San Francisco. The explanation for dying was not given.
In the 1971 jail examine, Zimbardo and a bunch of graduate college students recruited college-age males to spend two weeks in a mock jail within the basement of a constructing on Stanford’s campus.
According to Stanford’s assertion, the examine ended after six days when the scholars enjoying guards grew to become psychologically violent and people enjoying prisoners grew to become anxious, emotionally depressed and enraged.
Zimbardo has been criticized for taking up the position of superintendent, turning into an energetic participant within the examine and now not a impartial observer.
“The results of our examine was stunning and sudden,” Zimbardo was quoted as saying subsequently co-write with one of many graduate college students who was a part of the venture.
The experiment is now utilized in psychology lessons to check the psychology of evil and the ethics of psychological analysis with human topics, Stanford mentioned.
Zimbardo’s analysis additionally included persuasion, hypnosis, sects, shyness, time perspective, altruism and compassion, Stanford mentioned.
Zimbardo leaves behind his spouse, Christina Maslach Zimbardo, three youngsters and 4 grandchildren.
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