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Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo
American Psychologist
Born: Mar 23, 1933
Behavior Came Evil Good People You
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I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero. Philip Zimbardo
Saying You Change People Hero Heroes Sacrifice Heroism Say Willing Something Risk Take Step Most Make Always Making Doing Line Any Want Us Across Means
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed. Philip Zimbardo
Become Control Group Starts Ways Members High Corrupted Leaders Ideals Advisor Cult Cults Off Dominate Get Board Who Many Exposed Lives Start
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. Philip Zimbardo
Good Good And Evil Evil Pressured Cross Almost Between Induced Forces Line Situational Anyone
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? Philip Zimbardo
Good People Sometimes Smart Alien Evil Good People Seem Primarily Smart People Unusual How Been Dumb Irrational Ordinary Interested Ordinary People Act Natures Why Things
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. Philip Zimbardo
Heroes Power Situation Others Ways Those Easily Out Somehow Noble Motives Behave Act Who Resist
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
Good History People Evil Good People Past Situation Morality Triumph Put Does Past History Dominate Happens Place
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. Philip Zimbardo
Passion Half Greater Doing Than After Psychology Century Ever
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. Philip Zimbardo
Alone Time Me Technology People Internet Revolution Other Spending Face-To-Face Chat Troubles Part Contact Isolated Huge Huge Amounts So Many People Which Rooms Fueled Electronic Many Amount Shyness
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
First Research William About Had Ideas Lord Came Seminar Discussions Human Experiments Aggression Flies
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. Philip Zimbardo
History Training Behavior Situation Moral Religious Inside More Outside Environment Genes Than Human Human Behavior Influenced Us Things Inner External
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. Philip Zimbardo
Life Class Prison Experiment Out Students Exercises Understand Came Encouraged Dynamics Which Stanford
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. Philip Zimbardo
Welfare Black Pay Worst Had Because Rent Italian Up Discriminated Often Move Maybe Middle Experienced Grew Against Rican Poor Prejudice Puerto Puerto Rican Night Jewish
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. Philip Zimbardo
Alone Family Me School College First Complete Ghetto High Bronx High School First-Person Go South South Bronx Up Very Person Childhood Grew Psychologist Social Poor Origin Prepared Early Early Childhood Sicilian
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us. Philip Zimbardo
Live Around Without Being Psychological Processes Us
There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it. Philip Zimbardo
You Change Evil Thought Own Our Circumstances Seduced Potential Never Times Overwhelm Happen Acknowledge Against Then Us Aware Things External Need
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia. Philip Zimbardo
School Walk Thought Sit Down Everyone High Would Table Mafia High School Students Up North Get Hollywood Away Shunned
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
World Else Virtually About More Superstar Academic Knows Disciplines Subject Than Being Anyone Anyone Else Who Fostered Careers
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. Philip Zimbardo
Gone Think Dramatically Rather Individual Up Than Decade Pathology Social Level Last Last Decade Shyness
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. Philip Zimbardo
You People Better Easily Bronx Tells Feared Tale Make Bullies Friends Often Movie Loved Theme Us Who Shy

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