Zimbardo

  • Birthday

    Born in New York City, from a family of Sicillian immigrants.
  • Graduation from Booklyn college

    He earned a BA in 1954 from Brooklyn College. He triple majored in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology,
  • Graduation from Yale, MA

    He recieved his Master's degree in pyshcology from Yale in 1955.
  • Graduation from Yale, Ph.D

    He graduated from Yale with his Ph.D from Yale in 1959.
  • New York University

    he was a professor of psychology at New York University
  • Columbia

    He taught at Columbia
  • Stanford University

    After a year of teaching at Columbia University, he became a faculty member at Stanford University in 1968 and has remained there since; became a professor for Psychology
  • Published...

    Helped co-write and co-publish the Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behaviour book with Ebbe B. Ebbesen.
    Philip Zimbardo also published Cognitive Control of Motivation.
  • 'A Manuel For Volenteers'

    Co-published Canvassing for Peace: A manual for volunteers
  • Stanford Prison Experiment

    His most famous work: the Stanford Prison Experiment. It lasted 6 days out of the scheduled two weeks it was supposed to take.
    Also published his book, 'Pschology and Life'.
  • 'Shyness'

    Zimbardo helped co-publish the book 'Shyness: What is it, what to do about it'; How to Overcome Shyness. Family Circle magazine, May 31, 1977 page 14 (with questionnaire)
  • Shyness workbook

    Shyness workbook
    Co-published Shyness workbook
  • Shy Child

    Co-published Shy Child
  • American Family Foundation

    Cults go to high school: A theoretical and empirical analysis of the initial stage in the recruitment process, American Family Foundation
  • Pschology (3rd Edition)

    Zimbardo published Psychology (3rd Edition), Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.
    He also published The Shy Child : Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood, Malor Books
  • Elected head of American Pyschological Association.

    He was elected head of the American Pyschological Association.
  • Violence Workers

    He published Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Retirement

    Zimbardo retired from lecturing and stepped down as head of the American Psychological Association.
  • Ig Nobel Award for Psychology

    Zimbardo, Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli an academic of the University of Rome La Sapienza were awarded the sarcastic Ig Nobel Award for Psychology for their report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities.
  • Vaclav Havel Foundation VIsion

    He received the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation Vision 97 Award in Prague.
  • Psychology- Core Concepts

    He published both Psychology - Core Concepts, 5/e, Allyn & Bacon Publishing,
    and Psychology And Life, 17/e, Allyn & Bacon Publishing
  • Palo Alto University

    Zimbardo joined the faculty at Palo Alto University as Professor of Psychology, where he teaches social psychology to doctoral students in the clinical psychology program.
  • The Lucifer Effect

    The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Random House, New York
  • Exploiting Human Nature

    He gave his final lecture, Exploiting Human Nature on the Stanford campus, bringing his teaching career of 50 years to a close.
  • The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

    He published The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life, with Simon & Schuster, New York