The Lucifer Effect and the
Stanford Prison Experiment. For additional
links and information, see the Stanford Prison Experiment's web page
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Watch an interview with Maggie Rodriguez discussing Dr. Zimbardo's new book, "The Time Paradox." Despite time-saving devices like email, most Americans say they're pressed for time.
Watch a slideshow from Dr. Z's TED presentation on Wired.com, featuring many previously unseen photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The Colbert Report on February 11, 2008 (click on it to play the clip):
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer from April 13, 2007 (click to open in a new window, 26 MB):
The Daily Show on March 29, 2007 (click on it to play the clip):
In the News
Common Cause: Combating the Epidemics of Obesity and Evil The Situationist
How Ordinary People Become Monsters ... or Heroes Newsweek (September 23, 2008)
People's views on time affect health, wealth, relationships USA Today (August 4, 2008)
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib Wired (February 28th, 2008)
Visionaries take on life, evil iAfrica.com (February 27, 2008)
Guantánamo guards suffer psychological trauma The Guardian (February 25, 2008)
Ahead of TED Condé Nast Portfolio (February 22, 2008)
The Seduction of the Crowd:
A Conversation with Philip G. Zimbardo World Affairs Monthly (December 2007)
Speaker asks members of audience: Are you good or bad? The Daily Item (November 2007)
There’s a little bit of evil in everyone, lecturer tells Bucknell crowd Williamsport Sun-Gazette (November 2007)
The Lucifer Effect at Abu Ghraib The Akron Beacon Journal (October 2007)
Famous psychologist visits university The Buchtelite (October 2007)
Bad Apples and Bad Barrels Scientific American (August 2007)
Shell-Shocked at Abu Ghraib? Time Magazine (May 18, 2007)
The social psychology of evil The Adirondack Daily Enterprise (April 30, 2007)
Helping government govern itself The Orange County Register (April 22, 2007)
Don’t kid yourself, we can all be evil The Sunday Times (April 8, 2007)
How Did It Come to This? San Francisco Chronicle (April 3, 2007)
Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil The New York Times (April 3, 2007)
New York Times Video (9-Minute Interview) (April 3, 2007)
Exploring Evil Pasadena Weekly (March 22, 2007)
The Banality of Evil, Part II Open Source Radio (March 27, 2007)
Studying Evil, and Good Palo Alto Weekly (March 14, 2007)
Stanford Professor Blasts Abu Ghraib in Final Lecture The Herald (March 08, 2007)
Zimbardo delivers farewell lecture on evil The Stanford Daily (March 8, 2007)
Professor Gives Final Lecture Palo Alto Daily News (March 8, 2007)
New Perspectives on the Psychology of Evil; Why Good People Do Bad Things OpEd News (February 28, 2007)
Lectures, Presentations, and Interviews
Common Cause: Combating the Epidemics of Obesity and Evil The Situationist
Zimbardo Says "No to Rumsfeld" (KZSU Stanford Radio MP3, April 20, 2008)
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib Wired (February 28th, 2008)
From Genocide to Abu Ghraib - Understanding How Good People Turn Evil World Affairs Council (January 24, 2008)
Mind Changers: The Stanford Prison Experiment BBC (November, 2007)
Zimbardo Unbound Stanford Magazine (May/June, 2007)
Listen to Dr. Z's interview with Dr. John Riolo From The Insider and Psychjourney Podcasts (July 2007)
Listen to Dr. Z on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross NPR (May 1, 2007)
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (#87) Shrink Rap Radio (April 29, 2007)
Ten Questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo How to Change the World Blog (April 26, 2007)
Listen to Dr. Z on BBC Radio with Margaret Atwood, Jon Savage and Jonathan Bate (April 16, 2007)
Listen to Dr. Z's interview on Forum KQED (Apr 9, 2007)
Interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now (March 30, 2007)
Interview on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (March 29, 2007)
Open Source Radio Interview on the Banality of Evil (March 27, 2007)
Big Crowd Attends Farewell Lecture of Philip Zimbardo (March 14, 2007)
Professor Zimbardo Delivers Final Stanford Lecture (March 7, 2007)
Acceptance Speech: Dagmar and Václav Havel Award (October 5, 2005)
Acceptance Speech: CPA Lifetime Achievement Award (April 5, 2003)
Transforming People into Perpetrators of Evil (memorial lecture, 1999)
More on the Stanford Prison Experiment:
How Ordinary People Become Monsters ... or Heroes Newsweek (September 23, 2008)
Mind Changers: The Stanford Prison Experiment BBC (November, 2007)
The Human Behavior Experiments (Sundance Channel, June, 2006)
Review: "The Human Behavior Experiments" (New York Times, June 1, 2006)
SPE: Still Powerful After All These Years (Press Release, January 8, 1997)
Thirty-Year Retrospective (Stanford Report, August 22, 2001)
BBC Halts "Prison Experiment" (The Guardian, January 24, 2002)
NPR Morning Edition Segment on Das Experiment (Sept. 18, 2002)
Review of Quiet Rage (Prison Legal News, July 9, 2003)
Selected Articles by Dr. Zimbardo
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