http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/03/philip-zimbardo-speaking-in-london/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/03/philip-zimbardo-speaking-in-london/#comment-7455 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:55:16 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/philip-zimbardo-speaking-in-london/#comment-7455 He’s been getting a lot of attention with this book. It is on my list of books to be read this summer before the APA convention in San Francisco this August.
There is an 8 minute interview with him up on the front page of the New York Times today. It is worth seeing.
Not having read the book, but having seen a few reviews and a couple of interviews, it seems he is looking at the horrors of Abu Grab prison in the context of his prison experiment at Stanford in ’71. And it sounds like he is coming down heavily on the side of environmental influences on behavior.
(Of course, if you or I tried to run such an experiment today we’d be hauled before every review board and ethics panel around. Oh, well.)

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/04/03/philip-zimbardo-speaking-in-london/#comment-7454 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:05:31 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/philip-zimbardo-speaking-in-london/#comment-7454 I’d really like to go to this but I’m not a member of the BPS. Anybody reading who is and willing to buy a couple of tickets on my behalf?
I’m reachable at euan dot adie at gmail dot com.

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