Posts Tagged: Zimbardo

Prayer, Good God, What is it Good For?

This week on the Freakonomics podcast, Stephen Dubner interviewed Phillip Zimbardo the psychologist who developed the Stanford Prison Experiment.  Zimbardo mentioned how a person’s identity is in large part a result of context and relationships, though there is a fundamental identity which reveals itself when a person experiences the unexpected.  To prove this, he likes… Read more »