The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip ZimbardoThere are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
Philip ZimbardoOne can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
Philip ZimbardoThe Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.
Philip ZimbardoWe can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.
Philip Zimbardo