About
Psychologist and Stanford University professor who gained fame in the science community for his Stanford prison experiment. This experiment proved that abusive behavior in prison was not caused by inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards but by situational conditions.
Before Fame
He earned a Ph.D. from Yale University after graduating summa cum ladue from Brooklyn College in 1954.
Trivia
He wrote the book The Lucifer Effect to discuss how good people do evil things. He began and became the president of the Heroic Imagination Project.
Family Life
He had been in a long-term relationship with Christina Maslach.
Associated With
He and Paul Erlich both became professors at Stanford University.
