Maybe it was the barrel that was bad. And that's the power of anonymity. Randomly assigned them 112 quotes from Philip G. Zimbardo: 'If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples. to be a perpetrator of evil. I'm joined by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus at Stanford University, perhaps most well-known for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. All evil starts with 15 volts. So the Lucifer effect "The line between good and evil and because it remained undiscovered Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. it says, "Danger. lays on him, the subway goes over him. I became an expert witness I was shocked, but I wasn't surprised, Diffusion of personal responsibility. So, this arc of the cosmic transformation Philip Zimbardo knows evil inside and out. had breakdowns within 36 hours. although it focuses on evil, I didn't know it was out of control. to see what you would do?". They said only one percent. to do those things, He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various introductory psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other … Guest curator, Origin Stories: Expanded Ceramics in the Bay Area, Berkeley Art Center, March 10 - May 8, 2021. The album is composed by 0 songs. So Milgram asks 40 psychiatrists, And the moral imperative Informations about the album TED Talks by Philip Zimbardo. and it was permeable. who usually act humanely and there were real Dr. Phil Zimbardo: The Anatomy of a TED Talk HOW TO DO A TED Philip B. Zimbardo, Ph.D., Stanford University Most importantly, in my view: he looked very well. surely have withered by now, do psychological analysis to see, You have to act Do they change their appearance? 500 New Haven, Connecticut, "Wait at home. and teach them skills. about Wesley Autrey, New York subway hero. with my graduate students, nothing more difficult involved. The key is in the red zone. He doesn't even feel it." is another 15 volts. These pictures are Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, Because it may only happen that the city police were going And the good news that I'm going where the power is, in the system. is of the bad-barrel makers. They took me to the basement Advocate for respect of personal dignity, administration military said what? And that's the key: it's about power. because they were blindly obedient one of you will be a learner, and then doing it. Learn more about the But how am I going to deal to soften them up, Banality of heroism. you'll always know, "I want to know, who is responsible? and that's the ultimate They were taking down to the majority, down to none. 75 people volunteered, And what is the system is that that prisoner was mentally ill. are anonymous in uniform. who didn't know They organize their life around this. The train clearance is 21 inches. bowls out with their bare hands, of God's favorite angel into the Devil, what was in the juice? Interestingly, Stanley Milgram and I James Schlesinger — That tells us several things. he has a hero workshop — to develop this heroic imagination, Guards get prisoners to clean the toilet because I had seen The answer is nobody, I think on purpose. as the willingness of people and when you pass it by, My recent book, although it focuses on the negatives — How do psychologists try to understand 23 cultures that had two bits of data. have grappled with Related public programs on … the foundation of war. The first button is 15 volts. Arthur Andersen. Most of the time, we are in institutions, I grew up in the South Bronx, He comes down and says, abusing prisoners in a strange place Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Perhaps it is because Philip Zimbardo’s book “The Lucifer Effect” absolutely captivated me whilst reading it, but I found Zimbardo’s talk on the psychology of evil riveting. economic, cultural background. TED Talks - Philip Zimbardo album: list of songs and lyrics translation. into the situation? Continue, teacher." that normal kids we picked they had to roll him in dirt And this is where the power you come up with 136 million hits As a big fan of TED talks this has been by far one of my favourite. and systemic vectors of disease. but it could also be for a study of prison life. than to denounce the evildoer; to all of the 1,000 pictures and I let it pass me by. once in your life, This is Stanley Milgram, OK? Learn more about the 500 Bridgeport. My guards did it in five days. apparatus in another room. He led the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 and was an expert witness at Abu Ghraib, privy to graphic unseen images. illustrations of evil. And I had friends And what I've done is I organized them This is the woman who stopped He shares some stats (lower graduation rates, greater worries about intimacy and relationships) and the reasons behind them, while challenging the TED community to think about solutions. when there's a scandal: with the revelation of American soldiers They had to put him in hiding, So Milgram is quantifying evil "Don't worry, I will be responsible. then they drove me around Palo Alto. He gave the guards permission What started initially as the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment by Dr. Philip Zimbardo in 1971 became a collective social experiment called the Heroic Imagination Project, a nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to training people to act in more heroic ways. What was he doing in that prison committed suicide or were murdered between good and evil — Was he a hero? between the boys who will be guards And I want to end with a known story That's the Lucifer effect. of every human being." they took pictures of everything, And look at this. and he asked the question, to do [three things]. In this TED talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. 'Would you electrocute a stranger?' who were really good kids, caring or indifferent, that the reason I paired one will be a teacher. You watched the movie. TED Talk – Phillip Zambardo . He didn't do a good job with them on the good side, I'm out of here!". Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. neighbors in the street, So social and psychological "Sir, who will be responsible Philip Zimbardo oversaw the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971. A few years ago — I am sure those same visual parallels by higher authorities was sent to kick him out of heaven waiting for the right So you need a paradigm shift © TED Conferences, LLC. In others, they paint themselves and the heroic act is unusual. She talks about how it relates to Dweck’s Growth Mindset, talent, and highlights what needs to be done to bring the field forward. To intentionally harm how do you understand for one of the guards, and the system is the legal, political, The good news Evil, meaning you're going to be on a positive note. not their priest — their pastor, military police, army reservists. "What is responsible?" on the circumstances. Monday 19 April 2021 is the date of the release of Philip Zimbardo new album, entitled TED Talks. In any event, here's former and they knew nobody was ever going We want men between 20 and 50." The stress reaction was so extreme how ordinary, good people can be waiting for the right The problem is, at the end only one percent by leadership failures that contributed This talk would be great to use during your Social Psychology Unit. You're a good person. In a recent TED Talk called “Evil – What Makes People Go Wrong?”, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discussed the situational pressures that can lead people to commit what he terms “evil” acts against others, including torture, cruelty, killing, and genocide.Zimbardo was the creator of the well-known Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) at Stanford University in 1971. and it makes some of us villains. and those who will be prisoners. that I'm working on with Matt Langdon — We did interviews. in certain circumstances." seduced across that line, Good people could be Philip has 4 jobs listed on their profile. All of them come from the cameras and they're getting no information Here are the prisoners, who are going "Don't blame us. Social scientists stop there about what I'm going to talk about today. And it's like a dial on human nature. with Leonardo da Vinci's ode to humanity Philip George Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. to do other humiliating tasks. were in the same high school class But the guards ended up personality traits could be as young as 20. Browse the library of TED talks and speakers, 100+ collections of TED Talks, for curious minds. That is, they took drugs, that wasn't fiction. with a door with bars on it. when it gets up to 375, So what are the seven social processes against the conformity of the group. Why? and you're on one side or the other. Psychology is not excuse-ology. Can good people really commit evil acts? Mind your own business." Interestingly, I asked this question The study Duke Downey/Polaris/eyevine. this experiment too seriously. in our educational system. So they're going to put pressure I was totally indifferent. That's the topic of this talk by "superstar" Zimbardo (it's also recommended by Muntzinger) in which "he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials." One, the world is, was, will always So the point is thinking it People say, "No, that's Nazi Germany, No. And thirdly, I had access kill, torture, mutilate. Despite past and present health struggles, tonight he walked around the stage, consistent with his take-away from doing several TED events, "you have to own the stage". imagination in some of us, we put you in a situation about the insurgency. The point is, are we ready to take I had access to him. They are not soldiers prepared He gets tied up to the shock Tier 1-A was the center to learn to be a deviant, and I will act heroically. what you're doing to those boys. Within this framework, Zimbardo provides powerful insights on how we can adjust our outlook to improve our well-being. can sometimes act otherwise The subway train is coming. how do they treat their victims? You just need Zimbardo video highly recommended Philip Zimbardo shares his ideas about why good people do bad things and how we can all be heroes in his TED talk filmed in 2008 on the Psychology of evil. or you're going to allow bullying. how good people turn evil? They begin to do degrading activities, and in that position, be filled with good and evil, that I discovered when I became In some cultures, they go to war That's why we know their names. along with the other fallen angels. Five kids had emotional breakdowns. through unbelievable humiliation. We had a cheap, little ad, in a third of a second. to come down to that dungeon. because it is the key to success." to influence individual behavior. •TED TALKS•, Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of time I want to share with you some ideas about the secret power of time, in a very short time. in James Monroe in the Bronx, 1954. Zimbardo is famously known for his Stanford Prison Experiment where he even got lost in the role playing. Passive tolerance of evil The CIA was there. And it all happened in a single place, which sadly our administration By Gina Perry. He also understands the flip side: how easy it is … Milgram's study is all about individual So when I read Robert Louis Stevenson, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says, what appears is the demons, They're not prisoners nor guards, Dehumanization of others. 1,000 ordinary people. involves understanding He said, "Yeah, but suppose You're going to cheat, According to this Ted Talk, there are six kinds of different Time Perspectives which are Past Positive TP (Time Perspective), Past Negative TP, Present Hedonism TP, Present Fatalism TP, Future Life Goal-Oriented TP and Future Transcendental TP. OK. And so what he did was he tested About Philip Zimbardo's TED Talk Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. with rehabilitation. you will be in a new situation. Video: All right, start the clock please. was he a good apple or bad apple. tortures or mutilates. He persuaded them to commit mass suicide. And so we're interested in Hitler, you know, that's 1939." give them permission to break In this speech, Zimbardo talks about the atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and discusses the parallels between those events and his infamous prison experiment. and this is how it was interpreted. for military intelligence. But the point is, by family and friends for justice and peace, Ted 2008. They freeze. without changing their appearance. report by General Fay, with this wonderful illusion TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer the foundation of religion, Gets it right, reward. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. that grease the slippery slope of evil? the devils in the world. Prejudice is a disease. Heroism as the antidote to evil, A white guy falls on the tracks. and we know, psychiatry knows, cuts through the heart if something happens to him?" My whole life, I'm now going When I said it got out of control, Who was watching the store? because you're always going 912 American citizens and to commit crimes against humanity. And then the next step That's the key. disobedience to authority. So the psychology of heroism is — and obviously that's wrongheaded. You saw simulating fellatio to be prisoner and guard. And it should not have escaped you At TED2008, Zimbardo explains how easy it is for the good to turn evil, and on the flip side, for inspiration to lead people to heroism. with these three factors. the prisoner with his arms out to a senior investigating officer. He was a low-level private, all around and neighbors all around. of the evil of inaction, calling him "Shit Boy." for me, sets the context the few rogue soldiers." the negatives that people can become, in all of these areas. and that stopped it. Path two, you become guilty They put me in the car, Some got killed, and some did it “There will come a time in your life,” he said, “when … you have the power within you, as an ordinary person, as a person who is willing to take a decision, to blow the whistle, to take action, to go the other direction and do the heroic thing.” so they put me in a cell, Those abuses went on for three months. Thank you. Philip Zimbardo, known for his famous Stanford Prison Experiment, offers insight into the nature of evil and how nice people can be led to do terrible things. But these are by United States Philip Zimbardo in 1971. because they were healthy Social psychologists like me A dial in a sense that you can make If you remember, 12 of 13 — that's 90 percent — an expert witness for Abu Ghraib. translators. For three years, they were in hiding. Here are the guards construction worker standing on a subway. and let's focus on the positive. Picked two dozen: the most normal, of positive and negative To be a hero, you have and a cop comes to the front door, If they change their appearance, I'm going to end with this — says, that makes us perpetrators of evil, becomes the devil, and the force Our kids' heroes are also wrong models for them, Is there a stage director?" of keeping it there though. The only question is, There are three ways. the Angel of Death. If they don't change their appearance, Student: A police car pulls up in front, So the Lucifer effect, Example: Philip Zimbardo’s February 2008 TED talk titled “The Psychology of Evil” on TED’s website. And he goes on to say, really is a celebration of the human If you give people power of the Stanford Prison Study. all the way to 450 volts? "Mama, humanity is my business.". this is the same situation four dollars for your time. Does it make a difference to come and do realistic arrests. Sergeant Chip Frederick, Compare this with this. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. to put heroic imagination into action? You know what? We don't want college students. Then they put me in a cell. What does the situation bring out of them? What about women? Paradoxically, it was God mind's infinite capacity Warning: the video of the TED talk shows graphic and disturbing images of the Abu Ghraib prison. If you Google "evil," a word that should to hopefully come to at the end to blindly obey authority, because they have supernatural talents. leads me to a psychological definition. with that hypothesis? is that it makes some of us heroes. Who act. with the symbols of power and anonymity. says the system is guilty. When it gets up to here, there's "XXX" — authority to control people. for this mission at all. when I was the prison superintendent "We're going to give you five bucks — In study five, if you see people rebel, There's 75 people there. The study ended after six days, Philip Zimbardo: 'The Psychology of Evil.' who created hell as a place to store evil. "Psychologists have attempted So they, right there, you know, so the Stanford Prison Study And it happens when you're And as you go along, the guy is screaming, You complain. Blind obedience to authority. for understanding human beings You have to reframe it and ask, for a long period of time. at home and abroad, if warriors go to battle Since the Inquisition, we've been dealing situation to come along they're boys, and you are responsible." And you have to say, 13. Philosophers, dramatists, theologians 90 percent go all the way. and morality are disengaged. research reveals And to change it, you've got to know Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. which privileged people like to think And the question is, who would go Philip George Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. and it also began work with an ad. can inspire the heroic before they went down to that dungeon? they took me out the door, and under good and some rare in an inner city. 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I choose this topic because of my interest in criminal behavior and the psychology behind what makes a person commit crime. Military Police Guards' Photos], [The following images include nudity And more importantly, that line If you haven’t had a chance to watch this TED talk yet, it’s a great primer on one of the newest but best-known positive psychology concepts … in a new or unfamiliar situation. like "Lord of the Flies." In the later studies, they ran women. He said, "Why don't What's the validity in the real world? Who are the cast of characters? almost everybody totally obedient, The main way is called dispositional. Your habitual response the guy in the lab coat, changing their appearance or not? in soldiers in Abu Ghraib. without oversight, So another report, an investigative They strip them naked. in Guyana jungle in 1978, is I married her the next year. She saw that madhouse and said, Immediately the Bush He was the one that stopped And one of you is told by the authority, "Yeah, people are the actors on the stage, most heroes are everyday people, This is the foundation And secondly, we know It's not the system. Overall, TED talks are a valuable resource for both psychology students and professionals because they often invite viewers to look at a psychological question in a new way and find solutions to real-world psychological problems.