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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Friday, December 17, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Secret Powers Of Time "Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He is known for his Stanford prison study and authorship of various introductory psychology books and textbooks for college students, including The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox." The above is how Wikipedia introduces Professor Zimbardo. I became familiar with his work a couple of decades ago when watching a feature on "60 Minutes" about the 1971 Stanford prison study: "...in which 24 normal college students were randomly assigned to be "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison located in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford (three additional college students were selected as alternates, but did not participate in the study). The two week planned study into the psychology of prison life ended only after 6 days due to emotional trauma being experienced by the participants. The students quickly began acting out their roles, with "guards" becoming sadistic and "prisoners" showing extreme passivity and depression." This study was inspired by the work of Stanley Milgram a decade earlier, in 1961 at Yale University. The Milgram Experiment suggested the extent to which humans will follow the directives of authority figures even when it seems at odds with their belief system, their immediate comfort level, or even what most of us consider humane treatment of other human beings. These are two powerful psychology and sociology pieces that, as a teacher, I used in some of my classes in an attempt to suggest how humans are able to perpetrate the awful, even genocidal, events we were studying in government and history. The students really responded to this lesson! They would still be talking about the lesson for weeks afterwards! I recommend these studies highly, however the purpose of this post is to present some of Professor Zimbardo's more recent work. Specifically, RSA Animate (featured in earlier posts) and Professor Zimbardo teamed up to present one of his talks using the really cool RSA Animate presentation style. I just love this RSA Animate stuff! This one gets us to think a lot, including about how we reach others (students, for example) who do not share the same time perspective we follow (most often, subconsciously). Check It Out! Pass It On!
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