"The experiment"

“Everyone is capable of the worst deeds!”

In 1971, the American Philip Zimbardo conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, which is still highly controversial today. The experiment quickly got out of hand.

(Bild: Nina Strasser)

The American psychologist Philip Zimbardo once led the Stanford Prison Experiment. Students who had previously been completely inconspicuous became torturers. "That's why I know," says the university professor to the "Krone", "that almost everyone is capable of the worst deeds."

When you sign your books, you put a heart above the I. Why do you do that? My first name comes from the Greek: "Philos" - the lover. But I think that some people are a bit scared of me. For example, my children often say: "Shave off your beard. You look like the devil." But my beard is my trademark, so I leave it as it is.