Philip Zimbardo
Professor (Emeritus)
Email:
zimbardoassistant@gmail.com Office Location:
Jordan Hall, Building 420 Room 210 Administration:
Roz Grayson
Research Topics:
culture,
education,
motivation and emotion,
perception,
psychopathology and risk,
self and identity,
self-regulation and control
Research Summary
Social psychology; investigation of causes, correlates, and consequences of various time perspectives; conceptual and empirical development of my Discontinuity Theory of Madness (cognitive, social, behavioral dynamics in the etiology of "normal" symptoms of psychopathology); study of the nature of mind control tactics and strategies used by cults; use of hypnosis as a methodological technique for manipulating cognitive and affective states.
Education
Ph.D. Social Psychology, Yale University, 1959