Best Philip Zimbardo Quotes
- Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. Belief
- 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… Alone
- 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… Decade
- Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively… All
- Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. Academic
- 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.' Aggression
- What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? Doe
- Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform… Boy
- 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… Assume
- We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection… Appraisal
- Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised… All
- I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask... Been
- If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples. Apples
- Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of… Absent
- The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs,… Aspect
- Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom… All
- To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group. Always Going
- A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging… Challenging
- When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan. All