1. Philip Zimbardo
By Jake Benarick

2. Early Life
Zimbardo was born in New York city, 1933 Right in the middle of the great depression. His family were poor Italian immigrants from Sicily, and he had to work hard in order to support his family. He had a shoe shining business which was relatively popular when he was 10. His father was an electrician and his mother was a Homemaker. He had two sisters and a brother.

3. School career
Zimbardo valued school as a way out of the ghetto. He used his social skills to converse with the teachers, and get a good education out of it. While in his senior year of High school, he met Stanley Milgram, a future famous Psychologist who came up with the Milgram experiment. Zimbardo earned a triple major in Psychology, anthropology, and sociology from Brooklyn college, and earned his doctorate from Yale.

4. Professional life
Zimbardo’s professional life started out with him teaching at Yale for a few years, until he moved on to do the Stanford prison experiment. The experiment consisted of a bunch of male college students pretending to be prisoners and guards. This experiment was supposed to last for two weeks, but was cut short due to the loss of humanity in the guards, and the dehumanizing and humiliating torture the prisoners were put through. This outcome gave Zimbardo and the rest of Psychology a gateway to many other theories

5. Theories
Zimbardo came up with a few theories in his time, one of the most famous was the Lucifer effect. The Lucifer effect was the idea that anyone can become evil, depending on the situation. This theory was created based on the information gathered from the Stanford experiment. He also came up with a theory on shyness, how there is an inner “guard” and “Prisoner” inside of a shy person. The guard preventing the prisoner from doing anything that would draw attention to them.

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