Philip Zimbardo

Planner Must Read: Were You, Are You, or Will You Be?

July 9, 2009

Cover via Amazon With his new book called The Time Paradox, social psychologist Dr Philip Zimbardo lays out behavioral patterns of past-, present-, and future oriented personality types. It’s an incredibly simple, yet insightful theory he puts forth, and one which really highlights the weaknesses of our ordinary demographic segmentation of target groups. I would [...]

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Attacking In Group Doesn’t Make You Innocent.
– It Just Makes Things Worse.

April 1, 2009

OMG. Reading this mornings newspaper, I get the same vibe as when I hear about bullying in schoolyards, or when I listen to Philip Zimbardo talking about evil at TED.com – “if we attack in a group, we all get away with it”. Earbooks, Storyside, Piratförlaget, Bonnier Audio, and Norstedts have decided to take advantage [...]

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The Privacy of Evil – Part Two

November 25, 2008

This is the second part of my idea sketch on privacy and integrity. The first part can be found here. There is also an interesting comment on that post by Michael Dahlén where he talks about information symmetry, a theme that I’ll adress later in this post. In this second part I will show you [...]

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