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...This view is also held by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University and possibly the leading U.S. authority on the anatomy of vandalism. Years of study and experimentation have gone into Zimbardo's theory, which plausibly explains the present-and in Zimbardo's judgment seemingly irreversible-national surge in such destruction. The vandal is typically young (nearly 80% of all those arrested are under 18), and the young of today care little for the society their fathers built. Furthermore, in an age of expanding permissiveness, the vandal is no longer so heavily concentrated...
...they become, to the young at least, an accepted part of life. Wholesale renunciation of traditional values -the death of faith, the obsolescence of marriage, the campus as a locale for riot, the cop seen as pig-casts the adolescent adrift from all moorings. In this respect, according to Zimbardo, vandalism is "an attempt to show you have some effect on your environment. Destructive acts are chosen because they are more readily seen and because they are often more easily accomplished than constructive ones...
...Whatever hope Zimbardo offers rests on society's ability to recover its waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night programs for parents, for instance, or by opening its doors to extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that...
...widely known that many of Stanford's departments, both in the science and engineering fields as well as the social sciences, are second to none. Faculty, past and present, include Linus Pauling, Richard Zare, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Roberts, Steven Chu, John Taylor, Richard Zimbardo, Condoleeza Rice. If you know anything about their respective fields, you'll know who we're talking about...
...California, Los Angeles. Though the confessions contain an element of playacting, most callers want support for admission of sins. And listening to the confessions of others makes people feel better. "It normalizes your sense of guilt over transgressions to realize hundreds of others are doing it too," explains Philip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University...