Philip G. Zimbardo

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March 23, 1933 in New York, The United States

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http://www.zimbardo.com/

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Social Sciences, Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Stanley Milgram

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Dr. Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He is known for his Stanford prison study, and authorship of various introductory psychology books and textbooks for college students, including The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 2,509 ratings · 345 reviews · 73 distinct works

	The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil 3.88 avg rating — 2,024 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by Philip G. Zimbardo, John Boyd 3.53 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Shyness: What It Is, What To Do About It 3.61 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Psychologie by Philip G. Zimbardo, Richard J. Gerrig, Siegfried Hoppe-Graff 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Time Paradox: Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage by Philip G. Zimbardo, John Boyd 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Psychology: Core Concepts (6th Edition) (MyPsychLab Series) by Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Vivian McCann 2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Shy Child: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Overcoming Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Psychology: Core Concepts, Discovering Psychology Edition (with MyPsychLab) (5th Edition) (MyPsychLab Series) by Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Ann L. Weber 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behavior 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo

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“If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo

tags: behavior , power-of-the-situation , social-psychology

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“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

tags: elvil , human-nature , psychology

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