Top 30 Philip G. Zimbardo Quotes
#1. The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.
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#2. Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
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#3. Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask ...
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#7. People are less rational than they are adept at rationalizing--explaining away discrepancies between their private morality and actions contrary to it.
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#9. Conditions that make us feel anonymous, when we think that others do not know us or care to, can foster antisocial, self-interested behaviors. My
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#10. To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
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#11. A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23
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#13. Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
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#14. However, even psychologists are people, subject to the same dynamic processes at a personal level that they study at a professional level.
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#15. 1997 and 1999 published the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) and the Transcendental-future Time Perspective Inventory (TFTPI).33 As
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#16. One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
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#18. No one played devil's advocate, a figure that every group needs to avoid foolish or even disastrous decisions like this. It was reminiscent of President John Kennedy's "disastrous" decision to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.11
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#19. It's not a question of getting more moral soldiers. Instead it's a question of recognizing how the situation of war (and the cultural institutions/practices of the military that we have designed to "prepare" people for that situation) creates monsters out of us all.
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#20. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
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#21. 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 by their all-powerful government.
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#22. The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
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#24. It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
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#25. If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?
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#26. Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20
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#27. Zimbardo and Boyd Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.
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#28. If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.
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#29. At that moment, the Stanford Prison Experiment was changed into the Stanford Prison, not by any top-down formal declarations by the staff but by this bottom-up declaration from one of the prisoners themselves.
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