Podcast interview with Phil Zimbardo
- From: "georgekenney@xxxxxxxxx" <georgekenney@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:30:54 -0800 (PST)
Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast conversation with
Phil Zimbardo, professor emeritus at Stanford and past President of
the American Psychological Association. Phil finds the arc of his
career between the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment and the dungeons of
Abu Ghraib, as told in his recent book The Lucifer Effect:
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Phil became an expert witness
for the defense for Sergeant Chip Frederick, an Abu Ghraib guard,
arguing it was more the system than the individual that was to blame.
And Phil goes further, to suggest that if it is indeed the system that
makes people go bad, then there are ways we can inoculate ourselves
against its influence.
What's particularly interesting is that, at the age of 75, Phil says
he came to fundamentally new perspectives while writing this book. One
is never, indeed, too old to learn new things and to grow!
http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2007/11/angels_of_our_better_nature.html
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