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Indeed, a good deal of pop psychology has been written about the tendency of hackers to sublimate personal or academic problems in the immediate thrill of answering a question posed on a terminal screen. In Psychology Today, Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo summed up the hacker's dilemma: "Fascination with the computer becomes an addiction, and as with most addictions, the 'substance' that gets abused is human relationships...
Ritually, psychologists were invoked to analyze the spring madness. "It's fundamentally a ploy to get attention," says Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor at Stanford University. "College students are irreverent toward social values. This is an attack on dominant social values." Arthur Yehle, a psychology professor at Memphis State University, has a simple explanation. "It's spring, the weather is warm, it's something to do." Another psychologist, Dorothy Hochreich of the University of Connecticut, calls streaking "a form of escapism that doesn't seem sexual in nature. Students are working harder in school, and this...
Even without group pressure, notes Stanford Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, people will rarely intervene in an interfamily situation for fear of violating a social code. Husbands and wives can literally beat each other to death before most outsiders will step in; recent studies of the estimated more than 30,000 "battered children" injured by parental abuse every year indicate that as many as 4,000,000 people were familiar with at least one such case of family violence and that most of them did nothing...
This serious version of Candid Camera was one of several similar experiments which have been organized recently by Philip Zimbardo, 35, a New York born psychologist now at Stanford University. His tentative conclusion is that in offices, schools and streets, a big-city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports...
...name, and in the commencement speech U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg said that "no man has better served his country" or "more by his actions demonstrated an abiding attachment to peace and freedom" than the Defense Secretary. Rebuking the demonstrators, who had been guided by Associate Psychology Professor Philip G. Zimbardo and backed by pickets elsewhere on campus bearing signs reading NO HONORS FOR WAR CRIMINALS, Goldberg argued that the Government listens when citizens speak but a "democratic dialogue" requires that citizens also listen when government speaks. Protesters, he said, should "hear what I have to say and form a judgment...