Dr. Philip Zimbardo attends the “The Stanford Jail Experiment” premiere on July 15, 2015, in New York.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Jail Experiment” that was meant to look at the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.
Stanford College introduced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his residence in San Francisco. A reason for loss of life was not supplied.
Within the 1971 jail examine, Zimbardo and a staff of graduate college students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock jail within the basement of a constructing on the Stanford campus.
The examine was ended after six days as the scholars taking part in guards turned psychologically abusive and people taking part in prisoners turned anxious, emotionally depressed and enraged, based on the Stanford assertion.
Zimbardo was criticized for taking the function of superintendent – changing into an energetic participant within the examine and not a impartial observer.
“The end result of our examine was stunning and sudden,” Zimbardo would later co-write with one of many graduate college students who was a part of the challenge.
The experiment is now utilized in psychology lessons to review the psychology of evil and the ethics of psychological analysis with human topics, Stanford mentioned.
Zimbardo’s analysis additionally included persuasion, hypnosis, cults, shyness, time perspective, altruism, and compassion, Stanford mentioned.
Zimbardo is survived by his spouse, Christina Maslach Zimbardo, three youngsters and 4 grandchildren.