Word: zimbardo
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Even without group pressure, notes Stanford Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, people will rarely intervene in an interfamily situation for fear of violating a social code. Husbands and wives can literally beat each other to death before most outsiders will step in; recent studies of the estimated more than 30,000 "battered children" injured by parental abuse every year indicate that as many as 4,000,000 people were familiar with at least one such case of family violence and that most of them did nothing...
This serious version of Candid Camera was one of several similar experiments which have been organized recently by Philip Zimbardo, 35, a New York born psychologist now at Stanford University. His tentative conclusion is that in offices, schools and streets, a big-city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports...
...name, and in the commencement speech U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg said that "no man has better served his country" or "more by his actions demonstrated an abiding attachment to peace and freedom" than the Defense Secretary. Rebuking the demonstrators, who had been guided by Associate Psychology Professor Philip G. Zimbardo and backed by pickets elsewhere on campus bearing signs reading NO HONORS FOR WAR CRIMINALS, Goldberg argued that the Government listens when citizens speak but a "democratic dialogue" requires that citizens also listen when government speaks. Protesters, he said, should "hear what I have to say and form a judgment...