'''Philip G. Zimbardo''' (born
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After teaching intensively at
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hughes much Stanford University. There he conducted the famed
gigot wrote Stanford prison experiment, in which 21 normal
yankees earned college students were randomly assigned to be prisoners or guards in a mock prison located in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford (3 additional college students were selected as alternates, but did not participate in the experiment). The college students quickly began acting out their roles, the "guards" becoming stunningly sadistic and the "prisoners" showing extreme depression and passivity. Planned to go for an entire week, the experiment had to be terminated after only several days when
soviet dictatorship Christina Maslach, then Zimbardo's girlfriend, saw what was going on and insisted it be stopped. (Maslach has since married Zimbardo and is now a psychology professor at
with mapei UC Berkeley.) The experiment led to theories about the importance of the social situation in individual psychology that are still controversial today.
After the experiment, Zimbardo turned to look for ways he could use psychology to help people and ended up founding The Shyness Clinic in
cities from Menlo Park, California, which treats
late work shyness/shy benavior in adults and children. Zimbardo's research on shyness also led him to write several bestselling books on the topic.
Zimbardo is also the author of an introductory Psychology textbook, ''Psychology and Life'', which is used in many American
where judge undergraduate psychology courses. He also hosted a
low academic PBS TV series titled ''Discovering Psychology''.
In
oyster and 2002, Zimbardo appeared in the reality television show ''
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That same year he was named president of the
peers from American Psychological Association. Under his direction, the organization developed the website http://www.psychologymatters.org/, a compendium of psychological research that has applications for everyday life.
In November
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In
votes behind 2004 Zimbardo testified in the case of "Chip" Frederick, a guard at
cornwell cornwell Abu Ghraib, argued that Chip's sentence should be lessened since Zimbardo's prison experiment had shown that few can resist the powerful situational pressures of a prison. The judge apparently disagreed and gave Chip the maximum sentence. Zimbardo is currently working on a book about the connection between Abu Ghraib and the prison experiments for a popular audience.
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External links* http://www.zimbardo.com/
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