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Posted by Matt Langdon on October 13, 2008 Phil has just added a video to the HeroCamp site that explains the hero ideas in a nutshell.  I’ll be at HeroCamp next week in Houston where we’ll be aiming to create a curriculum for schools in four days.

The addition of the new Reicher & Haslam study to the course has introduced to many a long-argued debate surrounding Zimbardo’s original Stanford Prison Experiment; calling into question his conclusions and situational explanation for the behaviour that was seen.

Hot off the press: The new Official BBC prison website has been launched by Reicher & Haslam. www.BBCPrisonStudy.org Having had a link through this new site it offers a massive amount of resources, insight and information about the study that is new to the 2008 specification.

Philip Zimbardo’s work mainly focuses on why people do evil and the interplay of personal behavior, the system and oversight.  But he is using his work to focus on encouraging heroism. His theory is that we are all ‘heroes-in-waiting’.  We focus too much in our hero worship on extraordinary people

Book: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo and John BoydAbout: Boyd and Zimbardo put forth that one's perspective of time (how one views the past, present and future) affects most all of a person's life.

Here are two depictions of the Milgram study. If you've followed the posts here for some time, you may remember a video wherein Philip Zimbardo explains the Milgram study in a lecture he gave at MIT. (Note that the video contains objectionable and offensive material at time mark 21:00 through 24:00 in the video.

Posted by Matt Langdon on September 14, 2008 Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a pill and become a hero?  Imagine if you could turn into a hero at a moment’s notice by popping a pill.  Instead of Billy Batson needing to say “Shazam” or Bruce Banner waiting to get angry, you could do it whenever you needed to.  That’s a comic book idea for sure.

Groups Social groups have specific characteristics: (a) they consist of two or more people who (b) interact in an ordered fashion, (c) share specific values and norms, and (d) have at least some sense of unity and common goals.

In the study I dub “Are you powerful or not?” I’d be in a third category. Why? Because I felt insulted when instructed to do what researchers asked of students. At Northwestern and Stanford, no less. Here’s what happened. Two professors, Adam Galinsky and Joe Magee divided undergrads into two groups.

Posted by Matt Langdon on August 11, 2008 Matt Hutchison risked his own life to rescue his wife’s cousin Luke Casey who was washed off a rock ledge. He didn’t really think about it - just did it. Phil Zimbardo talked about the development of the heroic imagination as a key to increasing the frequency of heroic actions.