Quotes Philip Zimbardo

Academic success depends on research and publications....

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for al...

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I...

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such b...

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered b...

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse....

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the sit...

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic....

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary peo...

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operat...

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, b...

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. ...

My first formal research, published in 1953, was on trying t...

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psycholog...

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of ...

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over hum...

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last de...

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyon...

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises i...

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes ex...

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on a...

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do...

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technolo...