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Philip Zimbardo was born in 1933 in New York City. He entered Brooklyn College with the idea of majoring in the social psychology of race relations. Instead, for awhile, he researched exploratory behavior in albino rats.
He received his bachelor's degree in 1954 from Brooklyn College. Eventually, Zimbardo returned to social psychology and earned his Ph.D. in that field from Yale University in 1959. He taught at Yale and New York University before accepting a position at Stanford University in 1968.
Zimbardo has contributed to a wide variety of topics in social psychology. His early work included research on vandalism and cognitive social motivation. One of his best-known research projects was a functional simulation of a prison. More recently, he has become known for his research into the causes and treatment of shyness. Zimbardo has received recognition for both his creative research and his outstanding teaching. In 1975 he was given the American Psychological Association Distinguished Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education in Psychology. In addition to his introductory psychology textbook, he has published several popular books, including Shyness (1977). |
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