20.08.2013 |
magazine issue | 07/2007
written by Philip Zimbardo
From Heavens to Hells to Heroes
keywords:
heavens to hells / Lucifer / Lucifer effect / Stanford / Zimbardo
From Heavens to Hells to Heroes
The poet John Milton gave highest praise to the human mind when he wrote in 'Paradise Lost', "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." I have been celebrating that mental agility for most of my life, as a research psychologist for the past fifty years, but even before that as a child of only five years. Before I describe how I helped to... / more