Approved Quote by 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

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

“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

“had studied the “The Stanford Experiment” before, but this new book by Phil Zimbardo, “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” added…

— Nancy Many

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

— Richard P. Feynman

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them…

— Eugene V. Debs

I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by…

— Stanley Milgram

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

— Nate Silver

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

— Jessica Mitford