Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
K, for real one of the most interesting things. I know it’s 10 minutes long, but I promise you that it’s worth it to watch. Also, the drawings during it are super entertaining and really simple-looking but good! Enjoy.
I wrote Philip Zimbardo an email:)
A very long one, might I add. Look him up, he’s a brilliant one. Changed my perspective on humanity.
I started reading this book the other day and so far have found it really interesting.The book is revolved around the idea that any human can commit atrocious acts when under the influence of certain situational factors.
Zimbardo is famous for his Stanford Prison experiment, where he set up a mock prison and assigned the role of either prisoner or prison guard randomly to participants. After a while, participants who played the prison guards soon became very cruel and nasty to the prisoner participants by using harsh punishments, such as physical punishment (e.g. protracted exercise), not allowing them to empty their sanitation bucket, taking away their mattresses, making them strip down to full nudity and some guards even became sadistic in their punishments.
The weird thing is though, is that the participants who played prisoners were allowed to withdraw from the experiment at any time, but the majority just stayed and took it.
So far in this book, Zimbardo talks about the atrocities commited in genocidal acts such as the Nazi’s on Jews, the Japanese on Chinese during WW2 and (this I didn’t even know about) the Rwandan genocide of the Hutus on the minority Tutsi’s, where Hutu people would brutally kill even their own neighbour if they were a Tutsi. It’s so shocking to read what happened in these Genocidal atrocities that it really does make you think, ‘How could people do such things to each other?’
Really looking forward to reading more into the Stanford Prison experiment and Zimbardo’s psychological explanation of the evil that he believes lives in all of us.
DAY 15: The Demise of Guys?
CALLING ALL BOYS! Watch this TED Talk, you are in danger of becoming ‘digitally rewired’ - and stop watching porn!
This is pretty interesting, psychologist Philip Zimbardo examines why boys are struggling in the world, and have an increasing fear of intimacy in the digital age.
The EU’s recent economic crisis pointed to a definite faultline - all the countries with collapsing economies (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece) happened to be in the south, while thriving economies (Germany, France, Scandinavia) were northern. I was living in Madrid last spring and found an unfortunate parallel between the national character I so admired and the rapidly rising unemployment rate. Not-so-surprisingly, a focus on family, friends, leisure time, and getting the most out of life, was not as productive as the disciplined fast-paced work ethic of Germany, the UK, or the US for that matter. (Bummer.)
In this video, Philip Zimbardo attributes these differences in priorities to different perceptions of time. He separates people into past-oriented, present-oriented, and future-oriented. Further, he suggests that different time perceptions tend to be passed down through certain cultures and are an important element of national character. (The example given is that people in northern Italy are more future-oriented, while people in southern Italy are more present-oriented.)
Food for thought. (Que aproveche)
Philip Zimbardo @ TEDTalk - Demise of Guys?
Renown psychologist Philip Zimbardo gives a presentation on the demise of men. Using the internet, playing video games, and watching pornography are all changing how the male brain functions. Does this mean men will continue to fall behind?
Philip Zimbardo @ TEDTalk - Demise of Guys?
Renown psychologist Philip Zimbardo gives a presentation on the demise of men. Using the internet, playing video games, and watching pornography are all changing how the male brain functions. Does this mean men will continue to fall behind?
