[1] Zimbardo began her career in 1960 at the City College of New York.
At Stony Brook she was designated a Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1991.
[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.