CNN's John Sutter sits down with author David Frum to talk about the looser effect and how it can help us feel more present, oriented and focused on the moment. In his book deluseas 15 chapters of evil prison study, Frum looks at some of the heroic acts performed by participants in the stamford experiment. He also talks about what goes into creating heroes who are willing to take great risks to do what they see is right. "A hero is any one," says Frum; he challenges the notion that heroes are special people.
“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 situation as possible.”
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Stanford emeritus psychology professor Phillip Zimbardo sits down with host Matt Abrahams to discuss how time influences our perception and our positive or negative thought processes. The two also talk about how the findings of Zimbardo’s most notable (and controversial) study — the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — inform our understanding of human behavior.
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