Biography

Philip G. Zimbardo is an internationally recognised researcher and educator, he has been a professor at Stanford University since 1968 and previously at Yale, NYU and Columbia. He was president of The American Psychological Association and The Western Psychological Associiation. He is widely recognised as the voice and face of modern Psychology due to his widely-seen TV series “Discovering Psychology”. Zimbardo is also widely recognised for his //Stanford Prison Experiment// , and authoring the oldest current textbook in Psychology, //Psychology and Life// , in its 18th edition. Zimbardo also published some trade books in relation to Shyness, one such was //Shyness: what it is, what to do about it,// and //The Shy Child.//

Philip Zimbardo has received numerous awards throughout his career as a writer, educator, researcher and his service to the industry.One such award he received was the prestigious Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. His variety of three hundred books expresses his interests in the domain of social psychology, with subordinates of shyness, cults, political psychology, torture, terrorism and evil.

Zimbardo, along with his Presidential service to the APA and Western Psychology Foundation, has chaired the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing sixty-three scientific, math and technical associations. This society contains 1.5 million members. He also heads a philanthropic foundation by his name in order to promote education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo serves as an Executive Director in The Centre for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism; a Stanford Centre on Terrorism. He has studied interrogation procedures used by the military, Greek and Brazilian police torturers and other prisons. Zimbardo was also an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Gharib Prison abuses.

Philip Zimbardo was also noted for his efforts to give psychology to the public, along with his involvement in social-political activities challenging the U.S. Governent’s wars with Vietnam & Iraq, as well as the Correctional System in America.

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