Occupation: Psychologist Birth: March 23, 1933
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces..
This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out….
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 look….
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time ….
Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one ph….
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group..
In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of….
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 the….
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 you've shared food, or whom you….
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though..
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the fo….
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent..
I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes alway….
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.'.
Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of ….
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 ….
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange….
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off ….
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us..
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples..
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe th….