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Stanford University professor emeritus Philip G. Zimbardo is known for his landmark prison study, dramatized in the IFC film The Stanford Prison Experiment. His nonprofit Heroic Imagination Project teaches how to meet challenges with wise and effective action. He lives in San Francisco. Rosemary mostra'n més K.M. Sword is the author of numerous TPT-related articles, coauthor of a popular PsychologyToday.com blog, and the developer of TPT-based Aetas: Mind Balancing Apps for mobile devices. She lives in Makawao, Hawaii. mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)

Obres de Philip G. Zimbardo

Psychology and Life (1971) 234 exemplars
Psychology: Core Concepts (2002) 96 exemplars
The shyness workbook (1979) 7 exemplars
Psychology: AP edition (2005) 4 exemplars

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Attitude Change and Social Influence (1964) — Pròleg — 6 exemplars

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Very difficult read; you will come away with a gloomy view of humankind, in spite of the authors attempts to mitigate the message that we are all capable of great evil under the right circumstances
 
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corliss12000 | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | Mar 16, 2024 |
the start of this book is very interesting. i think that is this book's only redeeming quality. I was very excited to read it and it was no longer interesting to me, which is why I gave it one star. I truly can't imagine anyone reading this book and enjoying it unless it has to be read for school purposes. I stopped reading about halfway- but it felt like an eternity. This book is not at all what you think it's going to be.
 
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kaileyc08 | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | Jan 5, 2024 |
Pretty good book on Shyness, but I guess it's outdated now. I was trying to solve my problem and it helped me to understand it, at least.
 
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kslade | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Dec 8, 2022 |
This book was full of good content that was lost in the presentation. Even when I first got the book (as a promotional item), I was suspicious of it. The title and the reviews on the back work together to make it sound more self help oriented than science oriented. The content supported this instinct. The opening chapters on the different time perspectives are well written, but the rest of the book contains a bunch of loosely related ways to use time perspectives to improve your life. They would have made for great blog posts, but they only made for an okay book.

That said, unlike a lot of self-help books, this book at least has the advantage of being based on real and interesting science. Zimbardo and Boyd both have backgrounds as researchers who have studied time perspectives. Citations abound, and the authors do a good job of making the research accessible. This could have been a great book, and I was quite disappointed that it turned out to be only an okay book.

Zimbardo and Boyd have found time perspectives can explain a lot about behavior. In some ways, this is just yet another way of slicing and dicing people to understand how they behave (that's a good thing; every new perspective gives insight). However, time perspectives have an advantage over many of the currently popular ways of slicing and dicing: they can be changed. Thus, the authors spend a fair amount of time discussing the different time perspectives and outlining the "ideal" time perspective.

Zimbardo and Boyd have found six major time perspectives. The time perspective of an individual is a mixture of these six types. The time perspectives they present are:

Past positive: strong positive feelings associated with the past. Family and group oriented. Fond of tradition.

Past negative: strong negative feelings associated with the past. May have feelings of guilt, resentment toward the past. Feels trapped by their past.

Present hedonistic: focuses on the present, rather than on the past or the future. Committed to enjoying themselves. May be perceived as irresponsible.

Present fatalistic: believes they cannot escape their present. Subject to depression that is made worse by the feeling that it is inevitable.

Future oriented: focuses on outcomes, consequences, planning and saving. Sacrifices in the present for the future. Subject to stress.

Future transcendental: focuses on the distant, impersonal future whether through religion or a concern for future generations.

Zimbardo and Boyd believe that the ideal time perspective is high on past positive, fairly high and balanced on present hedonistic and future, moderately high on transcendental future, and low on the negative perspectives. They authors spend a fair amount of time going into why this is a good time perspective, but their suggestions are, largely, consistent with common sense. Overall, I found this book a useful read, although I could have got by with skipping the second half of the book.
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