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• Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

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  Fear, Powerful, Sacrifice

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• Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

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  Expectations, Littles, Matter

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

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  Leader, Boards, Way

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• In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

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  Drama, People, Evil

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Shy, Gone

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

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  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

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  Thoughtful, Creative, Groups

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.266, Random House

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• We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

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  Wise, Believe, People

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• Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

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  Eye, Men, Teeth

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• Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

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  Life, Dirty, Boys

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

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  Passion, Psychology, Half

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• Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

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  Important, Purpose, Strive

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Academic success depends on research and publications.

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  Success, Congratulations, Research

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

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  Thinking, Looks, Scientist

  "Finding Hope in Knowing the Universal Capacity for Evil " by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2007.

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• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

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  Adults, Different, Shy

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• Mama, humanity is my business.

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  Humanity, Mama

  "The psychology of evil". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

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  Boys, Years, Next Day

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• The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

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  People, Firsts, Heat

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• One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

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  Hero, Heroic, Psychological

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

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  Hurt, Curiosity, Belief

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

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  Class, Interesting, Limits

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!

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  Hero, Mean, Kids

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• The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.

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  Kids, College, Knowing

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• As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

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  Teacher, Challenges, Use

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

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  Running, Zero, Sleep

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