It’s the most famous psychological experiment of all time, where volunteers were assigned roles as ‘guards’ and ‘prisoners’ – and rapidly fell into cruel behaviour. The Stanford Prison experiment, ...

From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or ...

Don’t get too excited. No one (that I know of, anyway) has replicated Zimbardo’s classic Stanford Prison Experiment from the early 1970s. What has happened is that a new film version of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Canberra principal says he feels trapped in the infamous Stanford prison experiment when he hands out NAPLAN tests to his students, ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...