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November 20, 2009 – Philip Zimbardo at UBC!!!!!!!!
Cue excited arm-flailing, incoherent exclamation allsorts, unsuspecting roommates being biffed over the head with copies of his book, et cetera. You might know him as the man behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the narrator of the educational television series, Discovering Psychology. For the record, I’m only mildly obsessed with his book, The Lucifer Effect – an absolutely brilliant discussion of his experiment, accompanied by an almost-philosophical musing upon the goodness and evil humans have a capacity for. All in all, a rather fascinating, albeit disconcerting read.
…and that is my book update for the moment; I’ve been falling behind on my literary recommendations, mea culpa. But really, would anyone listen if I tossed out recommendations for books on the World Bank and IMF?
5 replies on “#072: Geekery!!!”
I’d probably check out the books eventually :P
@Tyler: I knew you’d cave! By the way, I am muchly missing your book recommendations too.
I scheduled his visit into my calendar back in September. I’ll see you there!
@Eastwood: Excitement!! I am ridiculously stoked for this. Bringing the book and everything. Eeeee!
Don’t forget about his Ted Talk (I’ll carry my intro psyc/soci texts!) ;)