The Psychology of Time - Philip Zimbardo

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Philip_Zimbardo_The_Time_Paradox

Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how personal concepts of time can affect psychological behavior.

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What if your attitudes toward time could explain why you are chronically late, why you're likely to fight for rainforest preservation, or why you might be predisposed to addictions?

Philip Zimbardo, renowned for his notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiments, will discuss how internal time perspectives determine every single one of our thoughts, feelings and actions.

He even makes the case that attitudes toward time can influence national destinies - The Commonwealth Club of California

Philip Zimbardo is internationally recognized as a leading "voice and face of contemporary psychology" through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He continues teaching graduate students at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and at the Naval Post Graduate School (Monterey). He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition.

Zimbardo is most recently the author (with John Boyd) of The Time Paradox (Free Press, 2008). He is also the author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007).

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[bookgeek0]

chopin65 he is not saying that children don't learn through play, he is saying that the children don't play in order to learn, they just play to have fun and learning about the world and their environment is a side effect of that. i would reconsider stating that the emeritus prof. of psychology at Stanford doesn't understand something.

[forger42]

So maybe a good anti-smoking campaign would be to focus on bad breath and stinky clothes? :)

[happinesson]

if you deal with the right target/problem you most probably get into the right solution! Think..think.think..

[jonesgerard]

@forger42 Most people can't run their own lives, do you think they can run yours or that you know better how others should live?

Until people are sick of smacking their head against the wall they aren't teachable anyway, "convinced against their will, they are of the same opinion still".

[forger42]

@jonesgerard I see, so trying to come up with new solutions to societal problems is "playing God" and should be avoided? That's productive...

[jonesgerard]

@forger42 Yjere is no good anti smoking campaign, smoking is a lot less harmful than playing God, thinking that you know whats better for how otherws should live or thinking we can change other people.

Playing God is fatal to the mind because it gives power to the ego over the rational mind. Its very tempting and seductive to play God, I do it often enough.

But many people aren't aware of the danger, they play a dangerous game.

These talks are not very good.

[jonesgerard]

I'm a recovered alcoholic, he;s correct that DARE doesn't work and the reason he gave is true.

But he has no solution.

HE also doesn't comprehend the nature of the problem, most don't so no news there.

[chrisleb411]

good vid

[brotherbandit]

@lygophile

Tv: You get to rehearse and do over, and edit over the spots you messed up.

here he's out live, and people can see anything he does

[gmueuphonium]

@forger42 and that smoke cause wrinkles



[lygophile]

i know he's been on camera many times. how do you think i know he seems nervous when doing so?

[GmoUnit]

lol ya yur kinda right