Philip Zimbardo Quotes (33 quotes)

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„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.“
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„I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.“
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„There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.“
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„After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.“
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„Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.“
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„One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.“
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„The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.“
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„Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.“
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„Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.“
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„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 boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.“
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„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.'“
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„Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.“
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„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.“
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„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 past-, present- or future-oriented.“
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„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.“
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„Academic success depends on research and publications.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.“
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Philip Zimbardo
Author born: March 23, 1933
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Psychologist

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