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Philip G. Zimbardo

Philip G. Zimbardo

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Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
28851
World Ranking
2232
National Ranking
1300

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Philip G. Zimbardo is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with 16 publications in this field. Within psychology, their work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include psychological and temporal perspectives, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, pain management and placebo effect, anxiety, depression, psychometrics and cognitive processes, mind wandering and attention, mental health research topics, and behavioral health and interventions.

Their recent published papers include:

  • New perspectives on time perspective and temporal focus, 2020, Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Dispositional Self-Consciousness and Hypnotizability, 2021, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
  • Continuing to acknowledge the power of dehumanizing environments: Comment on Haslam et al. (2019) and Le Texier (2019), 2020, American Psychologist
  • A Time to Get Vaccinated? The Role of Time Perspective, Consideration of Future Consequences, Conspiracy Beliefs, Religious Faith, Gender, and Race on Intention to Vaccinate for COVID-19 in the United States, 2023, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Temporal perspective and mental functioning of socially maladjusted youth held in conditions of institutional isolation, 2021, Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Howard Burton, Elisabeth Schilling, Ludvig Levasseur, Abbie J. Shipp, and Yitzhak Fried.

Their publications have appeared across various journals, including:

  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
  • American Psychologist
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze

Over the course of their career, Philip G. Zimbardo has received several distinctions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1970, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Putting Time in perspective : A valid, reliable individual-differences metric

    Philip G. Zimbardo;John N. Boyd

  • Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison.

    Craig Haney;Curtis Banks;Philip Zimbardo

  • Prosocial Foundations of Children's Academic Achievement

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Concetta Pastorelli;Albert Bandura

  • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

    Philip G. Zimbardo

  • The human choice: Individuation, reason, and order versus deindividuation, impulse, and chaos.

    Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Present time perspective as a predictor of risky driving

    Philip G. Zimbardo;Kelli A. Keough;John N. Boyd

  • The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence

    Philip G. Zimbardo;Michael R. Leippe

  • Who's Smoking, Drinking, and Using Drugs? Time Perspective as a Predictor of Substance Use

    Kelli A. Keough;Philip G. Zimbardo;John N. Boyd

  • Transformational Teaching: Theoretical Underpinnings, Basic Principles, and Core Methods

    George M. Slavich;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Heroism: A Conceptual Analysis and Differentiation Between Heroic Action and Altruism

    Zeno E. Franco;Kathy Blau;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Psychology and life

    Philip G. Zimbardo;Floyd Leon Ruch

  • The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

    Philip G. Zimbardo;John Boyd

  • A Global Look at Time: A 24-Country Study of the Equivalence of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory

    Anna Sircova;Fons J. R. van de Vijver;Fons J. R. van de Vijver;Fons J. R. van de Vijver;Evgeny Osin;Taciano L. Milfont

  • Escaping Homelessness: The Influences of Self-Efficacy and Time Perspective on Coping With Homelessness1

    Elissa S. Epel;Albert Bandura;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Personalizing Politics: A Congruency Model of Political Preference.

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • On the ethics of intervention in human psychological research: with special reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment

    Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

    Martha Knisely Huggins;Mika Haritos-Fatouros;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Influencing attitudes and changing behavior

    Philip Zimbardo

  • Shyness : what it is, what to do about it

    Philip G. Zimbardo;Paul A. Pilkonis;Margaret E. Marnell

  • Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison

    Craig Haney;Curtis Banks;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • On "Obedience to authority."

    Philip G. Zimbardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Maslach
Christina Maslach University of California, Berkeley
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Gian Vittorio Caprara
Gian Vittorio Caprara Sapienza University of Rome
Craig Haney
Craig Haney University of California, Santa Cruz
Claudio Barbaranelli
Claudio Barbaranelli Sapienza University of Rome
Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato
Cheryl Koopman
Cheryl Koopman Stanford University
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
Lisa D. Butler
Lisa D. Butler University at Buffalo, State University of New York
George M. Slavich
George M. Slavich University of California, Los Angeles

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