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Philip Zimbardo

1933 - 2024

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Philip George Zimbardo (; March 23, 1933 – October 14, 2024) was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored more than 500 articles, chapters, textbooks, and trade books covering a wide range of topics, including time perspective, cognitive dissonance, the psychology of evil, persuasion, cults, deindividuation, shyness, and heroism. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized. He authored various widely used, introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including Shyness, The Lucifer Effect, and The Time Paradox. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Zimbardo is the 66th most popular psychologist, the 1,268th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,067th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Psychologist.

Philip Zimbardo is most famous for his Stanford Prison Experiment. In the experiment, Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department and assigned volunteers to be either guards or prisoners. The experiment was supposed to last two weeks, but it was terminated after six days because the guards became so abusive.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Philip Zimbardo ranks 66 out of 235. Before him are Stanley Milgram, Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, Leon Festinger, William Stern, and Raymond Moody. After him are Bruno Bettelheim, Alexander Luria, Karl Bühler, Margaret Mahler, Karl Abraham, and Otto Rank.

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Among people born in 1933, Philip Zimbardo ranks 66. Before him are Richard Rogers, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Jerzy Kosiński, Abolhassan Banisadr, Than Shwe, and Ahmad al-Khatib. After him are William Luther Pierce, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Mathieu Kérékou, Bobby Robson, David McCallum, and Willie Nelson. Among people deceased in 2024, Philip Zimbardo ranks 62. Before him are Johan Galtung, Luigi Riva, Yahya Sinwar, Caterina Valente, Juan Vicente Pérez, and Ebrahim Raisi. After him are Maurizio Pollini, Andreas Brehme, Susan Wojcicki, Bernard Hill, Renato Martino, and Carl Weathers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Zimbardo ranks 1,268 out of 20,380. Before him are Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Mickey Rourke (1952), Robert Vaughn (1932), Burt Young (1940), Winona Ryder (1971), and Robert Smith (1757). After him are Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Rey Mysterio (1974), Billy Joel (1949), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Ray Tomlinson (1941), and Stan Getz (1927).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Philip Zimbardo ranks 23. Before him are Milton H. Erickson (1901), Martin Seligman (1942), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), and Raymond Moody (1944). After him are Mary Ainsworth (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Timothy Leary (1920), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Edward C. Tolman (1886), and Harry Stack Sullivan (1892).

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