[1] Zimbardo began her career in 1960 at the City College of New York.
[2] She later moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
[3] After she retired from Stony Brook, she took an adjunct position at the University of San Francisco.
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Albert and Angela Abdelnour.
In 1957 she married fellow Yale graduate student Philip Zimbardo.