What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip ZimbardoThat human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Philip ZimbardoSituational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Philip ZimbardoHeroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
Philip Zimbardo