Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

The Stanford prison experiment conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo in that university’s basement in 1971 should be familiar to anyone who’s cracked a psychology textbook in the last 40 years. In the ...

For those unfamiliar with this story, eighteen college students (all males) were selected to participate in a study commissioned by the U.S. military at California’s Stanford University, where a ...