He passed away at his San Francisco home, according to Stanford University’s announcement of his passing on Friday.
Persuasion, hypnosis, cults, shyness, time perspective, altruism, and compassion were among the topics covered by Professor Zimbardo’s research.
His most well-known experiment, nevertheless, was conducted in 1971 with the intention of simulating jail conditions to observe participant reactions.
In a basement on the Stanford campus, he and a group of graduate students enlisted males of college age to spend two weeks in a makeshift jail.
However, the study was terminated after only six days due to psychological abuse by the students posing as guards.
According to a university statement, the volunteers in the “prisoner” role experienced anxiety, emotional depression, and fury.
Notwithstanding the criticism, the experiment is currently taught in psychology schools worldwide to examine evil and the morality of using humans in psychological research.
According to Stanford psychology professor Claude Steele, Phil Zimbardo is a true pioneer of the area of social psychology and one of the most prolific and important psychologists of his generation.
Almost all of Phil’s research demonstrates the scientific study of significant occurrences in real-world human behavior. Social psychology is a very new field of study; hence, this has been an especially
