Philip Zimbardo

Philip G. Zimbardo is an American psychologist, who has been on the faculty of Stanford University since 1968, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Previously, he taught at Yale University, New York University and Columbia University. He was president of the American Psychological Association in 2002. His doctorate is from. is from Yale (1959) and BA from Brooklyn College (1954). He was elected President of the American Psychological Association (2002)

He is probably best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment and subsequent work on the relationships between prisoners and their captors. In broader work on authority and control, he has done substantial work on cults.

Zimbardo has received awards for making psychology available to the public, as in the 26-week Discovering Psychology series on the Public Broadcasting Service.