# Philip Zimbardo

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Understanding the Trump Cult Part 2

Most atrocities don’t start with monsters. They start with one irreversible choice. One moment where someone crosses a line they can’t uncross. And from that moment on, everything changes—because turning back would destroy their lives. This is the point of no return. I’ve spent years watching peopl…

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a famous and controversial psychological experiment conducted in 1971 by psychologist Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. The purpose of the experiment was to investigate how people are affected by social roles and authority within a prison environment. The pa…

MAGA Was Always This Hateful

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo ran an experiment at Stanford University that was supposed to last two weeks. It lasted six days. He took 24 college students, screened them for psychological stability, confirmed they were ordinary, healthy, well-adjusted young men, and then randomly assigned them roles. H…

How Monsters are Made

What makes ordinary people do evil things? It was a question that long fascinated the psychologist Philip Zimbardo, who died in October. Zimbardo was best known for the controversial Stanford prison experiment, in which he created a simulated prison in the basement of a university building and recr…

S3 - Episode 4 - Guido Palazzo: How Good People Become Part of Bad Systems

Why do good people do bad things at work? And how can an organisation slowly normalise behaviour that, from the outside, seems obviously wrong? Professor Guido Palazzo, Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Lausanne and co-author of The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Sc…

How we experience time

Why does one hour drag by, but a year can pass in a flash? And how does our relationship with time influence our behavior? This hour, TED speakers share ideas on making the most of the time we have. Guests include artist Katie Paterson, cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova, music director Rober…

Buried in History #007.1: Stanford Prison Experiment Pt. 1

In 1971, a psychology experiment at Stanford University set out to explore a simple but unsettling question: what happens when ordinary people are placed into the roles of prisoners and guards? What followed would become one of the most famous, and controversial, psychological experiments in histor…

Detroit Heroic From Dr Olaf Kroneman True Crime Murders That Need Today To Solve

Set during the 1967 Detroit rebellion, the novel explores a medical system that often failed its most vulnerable patients. While the story is fiction, it raises enduring questions about healthcare equity, gender bias, and the importance of listening to patients.Dr. Olaf Kroneman has witnessed these…

Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)

In an episode from 2012, we looked at what Sleep No More and the Stanford Prison Experiment can tell us about who we really are.  SOURCES: Felix Barrett, artistic director of Punchdrunk. Steven Levitt, professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus at Sta…

The New President-Elect of the APA is An Immeasurable Woke Idiot (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1057)

APA article announcing the election of Candice Nicole Hargons: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2026/10/candice-hargons-2028-president Hargons's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J9B4-u8AAAAJ&hl=en The former APA presidents that I mentioned at the start of the …