World-renowned American psychologist Philip Zimbardo died at the age of 91. His family announced it. Zimbardo was the recipient of a number of awards, such as the Carl Sagan Award and Vision 97. But he is most famous for the so-called Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Philip Zimbardo, 2015 | Source: Profimedia
The Stanford Prison Experiment is an attempt from 1971. It consisted in the fact that Zimbardo built a fictitious prison in the basement of the American Stanford University. He placed volunteers in it – students, who he divided into guards and prisoners.
He himself acted as the warden of the prison and observed how the students would behave. The experiment was supposed to last two weeks, but had to end after six days due to the brutality of the guards and the emotional breakdown of several prisoners.
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Zimbardo subsequently faced accusations of unethical research and influencing the experiment. He rejected criticism for a long time. But he admitted that he would have done a few things differently.
For example, he himself would not be involved as one of the characters in the experiment, which he confirmed in an interview with Radiožurnál in 2021: “I consider it a mistake, because as the head you care about the running of the institution more than anything else. I know I should have stopped the experiment right after the other prisoner collapsed, and I would have if I was only in charge of the study itself.’
Despite this, Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment remains among the most famous in the history of psychology. In addition to that, for example, he studied in detail the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, but also shyness, hypnosis, and finally goodness and heroism.
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