Books Quote by Nancy Many

“Zimbardo demonstrated this in the early 1970s when he carried out his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. The mock jail he set up in Stanford’s…

— Zimbardo

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by…

— Philip Zimbardo

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it…

— Philip Zimbardo

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

— Philip Zimbardo

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Regression effects teach us specious lessons about the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment.”

— Thomas Gilovich

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the…

— Alison Miller

“Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none." From The Tenth, chapter 28.”

— Joanne Moudy