Philip Zimbardo Quotes

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We’re trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.