Philip Zimbardo

Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized severely for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including ''The Lucifer Effect'', ''The Time Paradox'', and ''The Time Cure''. He is also the initiator and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. Provided by Wikipedia