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Philip Zimbardo

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Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.


— Philip Zimbardo


#being #beliefs #curiosity #formed #how

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.


— Philip Zimbardo


#academic #anyone #being #careers #disciplines

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.


— Philip Zimbardo


#human #human behavior #incredibly #plastic #pliable

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.


— Philip Zimbardo


#clinic #different #different levels #i #levels

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'


— Philip Zimbardo


#aggression #came #discussions #experiments #first

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.


— Philip Zimbardo


#being #live #processes #psychological #us

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.


— Philip Zimbardo


#beat #because #been #big #boy

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.


— Philip Zimbardo


#exciting #i #interesting #limits #make

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?


— Philip Zimbardo


#dominate #evil #good #good people #happens






About Philip Zimbardo






Did you know about Philip Zimbardo?

The prisoners who had been thought to have organized the escape were disciplined and harassed with more pushups and toilet cleaning. Zimbardo is the co-author of an introductory Psychology textbook entitled Psychology and Life which is used in many American undergraduate psychology courses. The Stanford Prison Experiment participants were actually arrested for crimes which they did not commit while those in the BBC study were just brought to the location by a blacked out car.

He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project. Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23 1933) is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

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