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Three Stops On The Search For Meaning

Lead Change Blog

Frankl hit on this theme long before Philip Zimbardo divided his test subjects into guards and prisoners and discovered how easily we fall into our roles. He also talks about the realities of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, long before that term became known and used.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo , the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. In just days, the prisoners demonstrated symptoms of depression and extreme stress and the guards had become sadistic. The lesson?

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith. Let me emphatically stress that this experimental heuristic is not a variant of The Golden Rule.

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