Netflix's recent psychological experiment documentary, Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, has received rave reviews from viewers for various reasons. The documentary examines a social psychology ...

Why have the landmark psychology experiments of the post-war era proved so ... Zimbardo’s videotapes from the Stanford Prison Experiment were not edited into a documentary until the 1990s.

A new documentary series on the study challenges us to reimagine what we’ve learned The summer before his freshmen year of college, in 1971, Clay Ramsay lived with a few buddies just a few steps ...

If you took psychology courses in college, you probably remember the "Stanford prison experiment," which monitored the behavior of 18 students assigned to play the roles of guards or inmates in a ...

The documentary described a recent take on the Milgram experiment masquerading under the guise of a glitzy French game show titled La Zone Xtrême [The Extreme Zone].

The Stanford University prison experiment was abruptly ended 44 years ago after treatment of pseudoprisoners by pseudoguards, both played by students, escalated too far for the researchers to tolerate ...

An artful new documentary sheds new light even for those familiar with the infamous experiment, Scott McLemee writes. The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth—a limited series that just ...

More than five decades after it was first published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1963, it’s earned a place as one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century.

I do not run what you would call a multi-media classroom. I am happy to play a YouTube clip here and there portraying a classic psychology experiment, but I rarely show long video. But I used to ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of ...