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Philip Zimbardo
Zimbardo in 2019
Born
Philip George Zimbardo

(1933-03-23)March 23, 1933
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 15, 2024(2024-10-15) (aged 91)
San Francisco, CA, USA
EducationBrooklyn College (BA)
Yale University (MS, PhD)
Known forHeroic Imagination Project
Stanford prison experiment
Abu Ghraib prison analysis
time perspective therapy
social intensity syndrome
Notable workThe Lucifer Effect (2007)
The Time paradox
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1957; div. 1971)​

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Websitehttps://philipzimbardo.com/



Philip George Zimbardo (/zɪmˈbɑːrdoʊ/; b. March 23, 1933; d. October 14, 20024) was an American psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He authored over 600 articles, chapters, and books on topics that range from persuasion, dissonance, hypnosis, shyness, time perspective, deindividuation, cults, and prisons. Among his more recent co-authored books are the best-selling The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil. (2007), The Time Paradox[1] () (2008, with Boyd), The Time Cure (2012, with Sword),[2] and Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn about Human Nature from Shakespeare’s Great Plays (2024, with Johnson)[citation needed].

He hosted and helped create both the original Discovering Psychology television series and the revision and updated edition https://www.learner.org/series/discovering-psychology/ of the influential tele-course learning experience. The PBS / Annenberg Foundation 26-program series has been translated and distributed throughout the world.

Zimbardowas known for the 1971 Stanford prison experiment, and for his work on many humanitarian and public service projects such as the Heroic Imagination Project, The Shyness Clinic, and Bystander Revolution.

Early life and education

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Zimbardo was born in New York City on March 23, 1933, to a family of Italian immigrants from Cammarata in Sicily. Early in life he experienced discrimination and prejudice, growing up poor on welfare in the South Bronx,[3] and being Italian. He was often mistaken for someone of other races and ethnicities such as Jewish, Puerto Rican or black. Zimbardo has said these experiences early in life began his curiosity about people's behavior, and later influenced his research in school.[4]

In 1954, Zimbardo completed his B.A. with a triple major in psychology, sociology, and anthropology from Brooklyn College, where he graduated summa cum laude. He completed his M.S. (1955) and Ph.D. (1959) in psychology from Yale University, where Neal E. Miller was his advisor.[5] While at Yale, he married fellow graduate student Rose Abdelnour; they had a son in 1962 and divorced in 1971.[6][7]

He taught at Yale from 1959 to 1960. From 1960 to 1967, he was a professor of psychology at New York University College of Arts & Science. From 1967 to 1968, he taught at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in California in 1968 and has taught for 50 years there (APA).[8]


Born in 1933 and raised in the Bronx in New York, Zimbardo became the first member of his Sicilian American family to pursue a college degree following graduation from James Monroe High School. He attended Brooklyn College where he earned a B.A. in 1954, triple majoring in psychology, sociology and anthropology. Zimbardo then went on to earn his M.A. in 1955 and his PhD in 1959 from Yale University, both in psychology. In the mid-1960s, he held teaching positions at Yale University, Columbia University, and New York University. Zimbardo relocated to California to join the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University from 1968 to 2003. Following retirement, he continued to lecture at Stanford and taught at Palo Alto University (former Pacific Graduate School of Psychology) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).

Stanford prison study

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Main article: Stanford prison experiment


Zembardo was best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment (1971, with Haney, Banks, and Jaffe), which demonstrated the power of social situations to influence people’s behavior [or power of situations to shape human behavior. He co-developed a Stanford Prison Experiment website whose pages have been viewed more than 50 million times.  While Zimbardo was invited to speak about the study to the press and in talks throughout his career, its impact notably informed his research on related and other areas. Zimbardo testified before Congress on the need for prison reform, served as an expert witness in the Abu Ghraib prison case. He later collaborated with a Greek colleague on investigating government torturers in Brazil; with Italian colleagues on political issues, personality, and disobedience to authority; and with Israeli colleagues on social issues of violence and gang members, and American colleagues on veterans with PTSD.

Background

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In 1971, Zimbardo accepted a tenured position as professor of psychology at Stanford University. With a government grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, he performed the Stanford prison study in which 24 male college students were selected (from an applicant pool of 75). After a mental health screening, the remaining men were assigned randomly to be "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison located in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford.[9] Prisoners were confined to a 6' × 9' cell with black steel-barred doors. The only furniture in each cell was a cot. Solitary confinement was a small unlit closet. Zimbardo's goal for the Stanford Prison study was to assess the psychological effect on a (randomly assigned) student of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.[10] A 1997 article from the Stanford News Service described the experiment's goals in more detail:

Zimbardo's primary reason for conducting the experiment was to focus on the power of roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation of behavior that generally would repulse ordinary individuals. "I had been conducting research for some years on deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization that illustrated the ease with which ordinary people could be led to engage in anti-social acts by putting them in situations where they felt anonymous, or they could perceive of others in ways that made them less than human, as enemies or objects," Zimbardo told the Toronto symposium in the summer of 1996.[11]

Prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison

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Further information: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

Zimbardo discussed the similarities between the behavior of the participants in the Stanford prison experiment, and the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. He did not accept the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myers', claim that the events were due to a few rogue soldiers and that it did not represent the military. Instead he considered the situation that the soldiers were in and considered the possibility that this situation might have induced the behavior that they displayed. He began with the assumption that the abusers were not "bad apples" and were in a situation like that of the Stanford prison study, where physically and psychologically healthy people were behaving sadistically and brutalizing prisoners.[12] Zimbardo became absorbed in trying to understand who these people were, asking the question "are they inexplicable, can we not understand them". This caused him to write the book The Lucifer Effect.[12]

He taught at Yale from 1959 to 1960. From 1960 to 1967, he was a professor of psychology at New York University College of Arts & Science. From 1967 to 1968, he taught at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in California in 1968 and has taught for 50 years there (APA).


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The Lucifer Effect

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Main article: The Lucifer Effect

The Lucifer Effect was written in response to his findings in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo believes that personality characteristics could play a role in how violent or submissive actions are manifested. In the book, Zimbardo says that humans cannot be defined as good or evil because we have the ability to act as both especially according to the situation. Examples include the events that occurred at the Abu Ghraib Detention Center, in which the defense team—including Gary Myers—argued that it was not the prison guards and interrogators that were at fault for the physical and mental abuse of detainees but the Bush administration policies themselves.[13] According to Zimbardo, "Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, self-destructive, antisocial, and mindless ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality." In The Journal of the American Medical Association,[14] there are seven social processes that grease "the slippery slope of evil":[15]

  • Mindlessly taking the first small step
  • Dehumanization of others
  • De-individuation of self (anonymity)
  • Diffusion of personal responsibility
  • Blind obedience to authority
  • Uncritical conformity to group norms
  • Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference

Time

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In 2008, Zimbardo published his work with John Boyd about the Time Perspective Theory and the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) in The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life. In 2009, he met Richard Sword and started collaborating to convert the Time Perspective Theory into a clinical therapy, beginning a four-year long pilot study and establishing time perspective therapy.[16] In 2009, Zimbardo did his Ted Talk "The Psychology of Time" about the Time Perspective Theory. According to this Ted Talk, there are six kinds of different Time Perspectives which are Past Positive TP (Time Perspective), Past Negative TP, Present Hedonism TP, Present Fatalism TP, Future Life Goal-Oriented TP and Future Transcendental TP.[17] In 2012, Zimbardo, Richard Sword, and his wife Rosemary authored a book named The Time Cure.[18] Time Perspective therapy bears similarities to Pause Button Therapy, developed by psychotherapist Martin Shirran, whom Zimbardo corresponded with and met at the first International Time Perspective Conference at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Zimbardo wrote the foreword to the second edition of Shirran's book on the subject.[19]

Heroic Imagination Project

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Main article: Heroic Imagination Project

As of 2014 Zimbardo is the founder and director of the Heroic Imagination Project (HIP), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting heroism in everyday life.[20] The project is currently collecting data from former American gang members and individuals with former ties to terrorism for comparison, in an attempt to better understand how individuals change violent behavior. This research portion of the project is co-directed by Rony Berger, Yotam Heineburg, and Leonard Beckum.[21] He published an article contrasting heroism and altruism in 2011 with Zeno Franco and Kathy Blau in the Review of General Psychology.[22]

Social intensity syndrome (SIS)

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In 2008, Zimbardo began working with Sarah Brunskill and Anthony Ferreras on a new theory termed social intensity syndrome (SIS). SIS is a new term invented to describe and normalize the effects military culture has on the socialization of both active soldiers and veterans. Zimbardo and Brunskill presented the new theory and a preliminary factor analysis of it accompanying survey at the Western Psychological Association in 2013.[23] Brunskill finished the data collection in December 2013. Through an exploratory component factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency and validity tests demonstrated that SIS was a reliable and valid construct of measuring military socialization.[24]

Other endeavors

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After the prison experiment, Zimbardo decided to search for ways he could use psychology to help people; this resulted in the founding of The Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, California, which treats shy behavior in adults and children. Zimbardo's research on shyness resulted in several bestselling books on the topic. Other subjects he has researched include mind control and cultic behavior.[25]

Zimbardo is the co-author of an introductory Psychology textbook entitled Psychology And Life, which is used for many American undergraduate psychology courses. He also hosted a PBS television series titled Discovering Psychology which is used in many college telecourses.[26]

In 2004, Zimbardo testified for the defense during the court martial of Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, a guard at Abu Ghraib prison. He argued that Frederick's sentence should be lessened due to mitigating circumstances, explaining that few individuals can resist the powerful situational pressures of a prison, particularly without proper training and supervision. The judge apparently disregarded Zimbardo's testimony, and gave Frederick the maximum 8-year sentence. Zimbardo drew on the knowledge he gained from his participation in the Frederick case to write a new book entitled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, about the connections between Abu Ghraib and the prison experiments.[27]

Zimbardo's writing appeared in Greater Good Magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California, Berkeley. Zimbardo's contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships. His most recent article with Greater Good magazine is entitled: "The Banality of Heroism",[28] which examines how ordinary people can become everyday heroes. In February 2010, Zimbardo was a guest presenter at the Science of a Meaningful Life seminar: Goodness, Evil, and Everyday Heroism, along with Greater Good Science Center Executive Director Dacher Keltner.

Zimbardo, who retired officially in 2003, gave his final lecture "Exploring Human Nature" on March 7, 2007, on the Stanford campus, bringing his teaching career of 50 years to an end. David Spiegel, professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, termed Zimbardo "a legendary teacher", saying that "he has changed the way we think about social influences".[29]

Zimbardo has made appearances on American television, such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on March 29, 2007,[30] The Colbert Report on February 11, 2008[31] and Dr. Phil on October 25, 2010.[32]

Zimbardo serves as advisor to the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution and appears in the organization's videos to explain the bystander effect[33] and discuss the evil of inaction.[34]

 
Zimbardo speaking in Poland, 2009

Since 2003, Zimbardo has been active in charitable and economic work in rural Sicily through the Zimbardo-Luczo Fund with Steve Luczo and the local director Pasquale Marino [it], which provides scholarships for academically gifted students from Corleone and Cammarata.[35]

In 2015, Zimbardo co-authored a book "Man (Dis)connected: How Technology Has Sabotaged What It Means To Be Male", which collected research to support a thesis that males are increasingly disconnected from society.[36] He argues that a lack of two-parent households and female-oriented schooling have made it more attractive to live virtually, risking video game addiction or pornography addiction.

Recognition

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In 2012, Zimbardo received the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology.[37] In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate degree from SWPS University in Warsaw.[38] In 2003, Zimbardo and University of Rome La Sapienza scholars Gian Vittorio Caprara, and Claudio Barbaranelli were awarded the sarcastic Ig Nobel Award for Psychology[39] for their report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities".[40]

Works

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  • Influencing attitude and changing behavior: A basic introduction to relevant methodology, theory, and applications (Topics in social psychology), Addison Wesley, 1969
  • The Cognitive Control of Motivation. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1969
  • Stanford prison experiment: A simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment, Philip G. Zimbardo, Inc., 1972
  • Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behavior. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1969, ISBN 0-07-554809-7
  • Canvassing for Peace: A Manual for Volunteers. Ann Arbor, MI: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1970, ISBN
  • Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behavior (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison Wesley., 1977, ISBN
  • Psychology and You, with David Dempsey (1978).
  • Shyness: What It Is, What to Do About It, Addison Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-55018-0
  • The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991, ISBN 0-87722-852-3
  • Psychology (3rd Edition), Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1999, ISBN 0-321-03432-5
  • The Shy Child : Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood, Malor Books, 1999, ISBN 1-883536-21-9
  • Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN 0-520-23447-2
  • Psychology - Core Concepts, 5/e, Allyn & Bacon Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-205-47445-4
  • Psychology And Life, 17/e, Allyn & Bacon Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-205-41799-X
  • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Random House, New York, 2007, ISBN 1-4000-6411-2
  • The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008, ISBN 1-4165-4198-5
  • The Journey from the Bronx to Stanford to Abu Ghraib, pp. 85–104 in "Journeys in Social Psychology: Looking Back to Inspire the Future", edited by Robert Levine, et al., CRC Press, 2008. ISBN 0-8058-6134-3
  • Salvatore Cianciabella (prefazione di Philip Zimbardo, nota introduttiva di Liliana De Curtis). Siamo uomini e caporali. Psicologia della dis-obbedienza. Franco Angeli, 2014. ISBN 978-88-204-9248-9. siamouominiecaporali.it Archived August 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  • Maschi in difficoltà, Zimbardo, Philip, Coulombe, Nikita D., Cianciabella, Salvatore (a cura di), FrancoAngeli Editore, 2017.
  • Man (Dis)connected, Zimbardo, Philip, Coulombe, Nikita D., Rider/ Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2015, ISBN 978-1846044847
  • Man Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It. Philip Zimbardo, Nikita Coulombe; Conari Press, 2016.[41]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Time Paradox – The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life". www.thetimeparadox.com. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "The Time Cure". The Time Cure. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  3. ^ Slavich, George M. (2009). "On 50 years of giving psychology away: An interview with Philip Zimbardo". American Psychological Association. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  4. ^ "Emperor of the Edge". Psychology Today. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  5. ^ "Phil Zimbardo Remembers". Neal Miller. April 15, 1954. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  6. ^ Reginald, Robert (2009) [1974]. Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Wildside Press. p. 297.
  7. ^ "Mrs. Zimbardo Has Son". The New York Times. November 14, 1962. p. 46.
  8. ^ "Philip G. Zimbardo". Stanford Prison Experiment – Spotlight at Stanford. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
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  10. ^ "Slideshow on official site". Prisonexp.org. p. Slide 4. Archived from the original on May 12, 2000.
  11. ^ "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years (1/97)". News.stanford.edu. August 12, 1996. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2018. In the prison-conscious autumn of 1971, when George Jackson was killed at San Quentin and Attica erupted in even more deadly rebellion and retribution, the Stanford Prison Experiment made news in a big way. It offered the world a videotaped demonstration of how ordinary people, middle-class college students, can do things they would have never believed they were capable of doing. It seemed to say, as Hannah Arendt said of Adolf Eichmann, that normal people can take ghastly actions.
  12. ^ a b "Skepticality Episode 49". Skeptic Magazine. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012.
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  16. ^ Sword, Richard M.; Sword, Rosemary K.M.; Brunskill, Sarah R.; Zimbardo, Philip G. (2013). "Time Perspective Therapy: A new time-based metaphor therapy for PTSD". Journal of Loss and Trauma. 19 (3): 197–201. doi:10.1080/15325024.2013.763632. S2CID 54843165.
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  22. ^ Franco, Z., Blau, K. & Zimbardo, P. (2011). Heroism: A conceptual analysis and differentiation between heroic action and altruism. Review of General Psychology, 5(2), 99-113.
  23. ^ Brunskill, Sarah; Zimbardo, Philip (April 2013). "Social intensity syndrome phenomenon theory: Looking at the military as a sub culture". Western Psychological Association, Reno, NV. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015.
  24. ^ Zimbardo, Philip G.; Ferreras, Anthony; Brunskill, Sarah R. (2015). "Social Intensity Syndrome: The Development and Validation of the Social Intensity Syndrome Scale". Journal of Personality and Individual Difference. 73: 17–23. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.014.
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  35. ^ "Zimbardo's foundation gives hope to Sicilian students". July 24, 2009. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
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  40. ^ Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Barbaranelli, Claudio; Zimbardo, Philip (February 6, 1997). "Politicians' uniquely simple personalities". Nature. 385 (6616): 493. Bibcode:1997Natur.385..493C. doi:10.1038/385493a0. S2CID 45115966.
  41. ^ Zimbardo, Philip G.; Coulombe, Nikita D. (2016). Man, interrupted: why young men are struggling & what we can do about it. Newburyport, MA: Conari Press. ISBN 978-1-57324-689-7.
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