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Sad news: Ig Nobel Prize winner Phil Zimbardo has died

October 18, 2024 Marc Abrahams

Phil Zimbardo died on October 14. His obituary is online. One of his lesser professional accomplishments came in 2003 when that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in psychology was awarded to Gian Vittorio Caprara, Claudio Barbaranelli, and Philip Zimbardo, for their report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities.” That study was published in Nature, vol. 385, February 1997, […]

Ig Nobel winner looks back at his Stanford Prison Experiment

August 18, 2011 Marc Abrahams

Phil Zimbardo, who shared the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for his study report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities” (which was published in the journal Nature), looks back on the 40th anniversary of the earlier experiment that made him famous. The BBC reports: Stanford prison experiment continues to shock Forty years ago a group of students […]