Philip Zimbardo, “Critical Situations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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Heroism Starts in the Human Imagination
It's a mistake to say that this person is cut from a different cloth and cannot therefore commit evil deeds. The important point is that it was remarkable what he did, but that on a subsequent occasion, under different circumstances, if we're not careful, he could do something just evil. So the whole idea i had was heroism really starts in the human imagination. All of us as kids wanted to do good. We all wanted to do the right thing. Maybe not te superman thing, thots ta superhuman thing, you know? But to do theright thing to help help kids who are now not doing well,. To help our parents, certainly mother in need, a and a n
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