Plenary Session:
Up Close and Personal With Philip Zimbardo, PhD (2128)

Friday, Aug. 7, 10:00–11:50 a.m., Rooms 718A&B

Philip Zimbardo, PhD, is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen TV series, Discovering Psychology, on the Public Broadcasting Service; his media appearances; his best-selling trade books on shyness, the Lucifer effect, and the time paradox; and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. Dr. Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now emeritus). He has also taught at Yale, New York University, and Columbia University. He continues to teach courses on the psychology of terrorism at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and has begun a new tenure as professor at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (PGSP), teaching social psychology to clinical graduate students. Dr. Zimbardo has received numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, and writer and for service to the profession of psychology. Recently he was awarded the Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. Among his more than 350 professional publications and 50 trade books and textbooks is the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, going into its 18th edition, and Core Concepts in Psychology, in its 6th edition. His pioneering research on adult shyness was the first of its kind, as was the shyness clinic he started in 1977; it continues to serve clients at PGSP. His current passion is exploring and encouraging the “heroic imagination.” Dr. Zimbardo is a former president of APA and the Western Psychological Association, former chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, current chair of the Western Psychological Foundation, and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism.

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