Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University will be speaking on
“The heroic imagination: How can we inspire our students for heroic actions?”
This public forum is hosted by Fordham University, its Psychology Department and Center for Teaching Excellence and will be held on Monday, March 4th, 2013 from 1-3pm in the Walsh Library’s Flom Auditorium.
For additional information contact Harold Takooshian at
takoosh@aol.com.
Born in the Bronx in 1933, Philip Zimbardo went on to become one of the world's leading behavioral scientists of the 20th Century. On this return to his Bronx roots at age 80, he shares his 50 years of experience as a scientist and educator--described at www.zimbardo.com.
He is widely known as a "Master teacher" who authored THE textbook in introductory psychology for decades, edited the "
Discovering Psychology" video series, and directs the "Heroic Imagination" project. Dr. Zimbardo is known for his faculty workshops, is a
popular TED speaker, and is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely viewed PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books, and his classic research,
The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now emeritus), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He also continues to teach at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey (courses on the psychology of terrorism), and is professor at the Palo Alto University (teaching social psychology to clinical graduate students). Zimbardo has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, media contributor, and for service to the profession of psychology. He has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Among his more than 400 professional publications, including 50 trade and textbooks, is the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, and Core Concepts in Psychology in its 7th Edition. His popular book on shyness in adults was the first of its kind, as was the shyness clinic that he started in the community and continues as a treatment-research clinic at the Palo Alto University in Palo Alto.
His current research interests are in the domain of experimental social psychology, with a scattered emphasis on everything interesting to study from: Time perspective, persuasion, madness, violence, political psychology, and terrorism. His current passion is The Heroic Imagination Project, exploring and encouraging the psychology of everyday heroes.
Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.
Zimbardo has been President of the American Psychological Association (2002), President of the Western Psychological Association (twice), Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP), and now Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation, as well as the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT).
He is excited about his recent trade books, including: “
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil,” (Random House, 2007, paperback, 2008), “
The Time Paradox: Reconstructing the Past, Enjoying the Present, Mastering the Future” (with John Boyd, Free Press, 2008),
The Demise of Guys (with Nikita Duncan, TED books, 2012) and
Time Heals: The dynamic new treatment for PTSD (with Richard and Rosemary Sword, Wiley, 2012).
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