Philip Zimbardo, PhD, on Heroism, Shyness and...

Are you a sports superfan? Or do you wonder what’s driving the superfans in your life? Daniel Wann, PhD, of Murray State University, talks about why being a fan is usually good for people’s mental health, how they choose the teams they root for, why some are fair-weather fans whi ...  Show more

Most of us think we know what a psychopath looks like. The word brings to mind images of horror movies and criminals. But psychopathy is far more common than most people realize, and actually hard to recognize in other people. Abigail Marsh, PhD, of Georgetown University, discuss ...  Show more

What makes ordinary people do evil things? It was a question that long fascinated the psychologist Philip Zimbardo, who died in October. Zimbardo was best known for the controversial Stanford prison experiment, in which he created a simulated prison in the basement of a univer ...

“Social psychologists believe that if we want to understand our own behavior and the behavior of others, the first thing we have to ask or notice is, ‘What is the situation in which they are performing, in which they are behaving?’ And then we want to know as much about the si ...

In an episode from 2012, we looked at what Sleep No More and the Stanford Prison Experiment can tell us about who we really are.

الحلقة بتتكلم عن تجربة مشهورة جدا في علم النفس اسمها تجربة ستانفورد للسجن وازاي التجربة تم وقفها قبل نصها. رابط الموقع الرسمي للتجربة: https://www.prisonexp.org/the-story/ لو حبيتوا تتواصلوا معايا ممكن عن طريق الايميل: yallathaqafah@gmail.com The episode talks about the Stanford P ...  Show more