Phillip Zimbardo

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

by Michael Huemer  · 29 Oct 2012  · 577pp  · 149,554 words

reason to suspect that many more massacres occurred that did not make the news. 6.7.2 The Stanford Prison Experiment In 1971, social psychologist Phillip Zimbardo conducted an illuminating study of the effects of imprisonment on both guards and prisoners.52 Zimbardo collected 21 volunteers, all male college students, to play

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

by Raj Raghunathan  · 25 Apr 2016  · 505pp  · 127,542 words

be persuaded to administer severe shocks to them. The so-called broken window theory, which has its basis on a set of studies conducted by Phillip Zimbardo, too, is testament to the idea that people’s propensities are not set in stone. S. Milgram, “Behavioral Study of Obedience,” The Journal of Abnormal

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell  · 1 Mar 2016  · 483pp  · 144,957 words

, not about extreme beliefs, but about the very opposite: faceless, mindless conformism. Partly in response to Arendt’s work, researchers such as Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo perfected experiments exploring just how far people would go in obeying orders. The results were alarming: almost everyone, it seemed, was willing to inflict torture

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, 1974); C. Haney, W. C. Banks & P. G. Zimbardo, ‘Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison’, Naval Research Reviews, 9 (1973), 1–17; Phillip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect (New York: Random House, 1971). 41 ‘The American existentialist’: Norman Mailer, ‘The White Negro’, in Advertisements for Myself, 337–58. Originally published