a hero
Why do I share this video with you?
Because TED always introduces the contemporary best thinkers, and Philip Zimbardo is one of the greatest thinkers. After serving as an expert witness during the Abu Ghraib trials, he wrote The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. He showed some disturbing Abu Ghraib pictures in this talk and provided his theory on why American soldiers and any ordinary people would do such things to other human beings.
He also showed some precious clips of his controversial Stanford Prison Experiment (shortened for SPE in his presentation).
This 23-min video is worth watching, and there is a personal highlight at about the 20th minute when the audience broke the depressing air and laughed.
Here is a Chinese saying: do a good thing a day, and the good thing I do today is to spread Dr. Zimbardo's talk on being a hero. He himself is a hero.
If you can't play the video below, try click here: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes .
1 comment:
As a well trained psychology student, I'm familiar with every study he had mentioned in the speech. These studies had also been applied to explain the Jews' slaugher carried by Nazi in WWII.
the idea of everyday hero is really meaningful.
Although it might be something that we all learned while we grow up, it's really great to interpret it via psychological perspective.
translate it into Chinese, I think the meaning of "氣節" may be very appropriate.
也就是 君子有所為 有所不為的意義吧~
(小時候)日行一善有嘉獎喔!! :P
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