Philip Zimbardo
Short Intro + Approach
Philip Zimbardo was born on the the 23rd of March 1933 in the Bronx, New York and was a professor at Stanford University. He is most known from his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and his research on the The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. In 2012, Zimbardo received the American Psychological Association Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology. His approach throughout his studies within psychology was social cultural.
Main Contribution to Psychology
Phillip Zimabrdo’s most influential contribution to psychology was his 1971 Stanford prison experiment. This experiment had the goal to observe the impact of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. It is also known as the experiment of good vs evil because it questions whether goodness would triumph when good people placed in a bad, evil place. In this experiment he wanted to investigate further the impact of situational variables on human behaviour. Zimabrdo set up a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University's psychology building and then selected 24 undergraduate students (who had no criminal background, lacked psychological issues, and had no significant medical conditions) to play the roles of both prisoners and guards. While the original experiment was supposed to last 14 day it stopped after the 6th as …show more content…
ZTPI was designed by Zimbardo to measure a person’s perspective on the past, present, and future. It works by measuring five different attitudes toward time that include past-negative, past-positive, present-fatalistic, present-hedonistic, and future. In his book he Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life Zimbardo outlined his theories that our lives are shaped by our perspective of time and that a series of paradoxes influence both personal and cultural behaviour. These 3 paradoxes followed
Short Intro + Approach
Philip Zimbardo was born on the the 23rd of March 1933 in the Bronx, New York and was a professor at Stanford University. He is most known from his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and his research on the The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. In 2012, Zimbardo received the American Psychological Association Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology. His approach throughout his studies within psychology was social cultural.
Main Contribution to Psychology
Phillip Zimabrdo’s most influential contribution to psychology was his 1971 Stanford prison experiment. This experiment had the goal to observe the impact of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. It is also known as the experiment of good vs evil because it questions whether goodness would triumph when good people placed in a bad, evil place. In this experiment he wanted to investigate further the impact of situational variables on human behaviour. Zimabrdo set up a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University's psychology building and then selected 24 undergraduate students (who had no criminal background, lacked psychological issues, and had no significant medical conditions) to play the roles of both prisoners and guards. While the original experiment was supposed to last 14 day it stopped after the 6th as …show more content…
ZTPI was designed by Zimbardo to measure a person’s perspective on the past, present, and future. It works by measuring five different attitudes toward time that include past-negative, past-positive, present-fatalistic, present-hedonistic, and future. In his book he Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life Zimbardo outlined his theories that our lives are shaped by our perspective of time and that a series of paradoxes influence both personal and cultural behaviour. These 3 paradoxes followed