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Dr Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist best known for his infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Study. He has had an illustrious career in psychology, teaching at Yale, NYU, Columbia and Stanford, where he is now Professor Emeritus. The Stanford Prison Study that propelled him to fame assigned college students as prisoners or guards, in an attempt to understand the psychological effects of perceived power, but has been subject to much ethical criticism. Since the Study, he has gone on to write numerous influential academic texts in the field of psychology, and in 2012 received the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology.

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