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Born in New York City, from a family of Sicillian immigrants.
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He earned a BA in 1954 from Brooklyn College. He triple majored in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology,
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He recieved his Master's degree in pyshcology from Yale in 1955.
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He graduated from Yale with his Ph.D from Yale in 1959.
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he was a professor of psychology at New York University
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He taught at Columbia
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After a year of teaching at Columbia University, he became a faculty member at Stanford University in 1968 and has remained there since; became a professor for Psychology
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Helped co-write and co-publish the Influencing Attitudes and Changing Behaviour book with Ebbe B. Ebbesen.
Philip Zimbardo also published Cognitive Control of Motivation. -
Co-published Canvassing for Peace: A manual for volunteers
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His most famous work: the Stanford Prison Experiment. It lasted 6 days out of the scheduled two weeks it was supposed to take.
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Zimbardo helped co-publish the book 'Shyness: What is it, what to do about it'; How to Overcome Shyness. Family Circle magazine, May 31, 1977 page 14 (with questionnaire)
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Co-published Shyness workbook
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Co-published Shy Child
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Cults go to high school: A theoretical and empirical analysis of the initial stage in the recruitment process, American Family Foundation
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Zimbardo published Psychology (3rd Edition), Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.
He also published The Shy Child : Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood, Malor Books -
He was elected head of the American Pyschological Association.
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He published Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Zimbardo retired from lecturing and stepped down as head of the American Psychological Association.
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Zimbardo, Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli an academic of the University of Rome La Sapienza were awarded the sarcastic Ig Nobel Award for Psychology for their report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities.
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He received the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation Vision 97 Award in Prague.
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He published both Psychology - Core Concepts, 5/e, Allyn & Bacon Publishing,
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Zimbardo joined the faculty at Palo Alto University as Professor of Psychology, where he teaches social psychology to doctoral students in the clinical psychology program.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Random House, New York
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He gave his final lecture, Exploiting Human Nature on the Stanford campus, bringing his teaching career of 50 years to a close.
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He published The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life, with Simon & Schuster, New York
