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A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study ...

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As a developmental psychologist who writes dark thrillers on the side, I find the intersection of psychology and fear ... close the book, or walk out of the haunted house whenever you want ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited ... the others ...

The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior (Anomalist Books, 2009) with historian Hilary Evans, and American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants (Prometheus, 2018).

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