Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage

The Time Paradox

What Malcolm Gladwell did for snap judgements and Nassim Taleb did for random events, Philip Zimbardo does for our perceptions of time

Comprehensive, admirably clear, and a delightful read

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan

Reveals how to better use your most irreplaceable resource, based on solid science and timeless wisdom

Martin Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness

Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale, NYU and Columbia, and is past president of the American Psychological Association. He is renowned for his world-famous Stanford Prison Experiments, his studies on shyness and, more recently, for his breakthrough work on time. He also presented the award-winning video series Discovering Psychology. He lives in San Francisco but travels widely. See his website www.zimbardo.com 
 
John Boyd received his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University, where he worked closely with Philip developing the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. He is currently Research Manager at Google.

Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In this fascinating book, the award-winning past president of the American Psychological Association, Philip Zimbardo, and his co-author, John Boyd, show how: 
 
- the way you perceive time is as unique as your fingerprints 
- these individual time perspectives shape your life, and the world around you 
- you can change the way you perceive time, so you get the most out of every minute 
- if you don't, the power of time in the modern world is so immense that it will take its toll on you 
 
The Time Paradox is a highly readable, stimulating look at a subject that absorbs us all.

How Good People Turn Evil

The Lucifer Effect

A fascinating exploration of how, under certain circumstances, the human character can be transformed from good to evil, now in paperback

An important book...all politicians and social commentators should read it

Detailed and absorbing...masterly and honest

Mary Warnock, Times Higher Education Supplement

One of the most distinguished social scientists of our age

Zimbardo's anatomy of human psychology and contemporary culture is as scholarly as it is scary

Professor Zimbardo deserves heartfelt thanks for disclosing and illuminating the dark, hidden corners of the human soul.

Vaclev Havel, former President of the Czech Republic

"The Lucifer Effect" will change forever the way you think about why we behave the way we do--and, in particular, about the human potential for evil. This is a disturbing book, but one that has never been more necessary.

Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale, NYU and Columbia. He was elected President of the American Psychological Association in 2002 and is founder of the National Center for the Psychology of Terrorism. Widely respected as an innovative researcher and writer, he presented the award-winning video series Discovering Psychology and his Stanford Prison Experiment has also featured many times on TV. His website www.prisonexperiment.org has received 15 million hits in 4 years, and the one specially set up for this book can be found at: www.LuciferEffect.org

In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers. 
 
At the same time he describes the safeguards we can put in place to prevent ourselves from corrupting - or being corrupted by - others, and what sets some people apart as heroes and heroines, able to resist powerful pressures to go along with the group, and to refuse to be team players when personal integrity is at stake. 
 
Using the first in-depth analysis of his classic Stanford Prison Experiment, and his personal experiences as an expert witness for one of the Abu Ghraib prison guards, Zimbardo's stimulating and provocative book raises fundamental questions about the nature of good and evil, and how each one of us needs to be vigilant to prevent becoming trapped in the 'Lucifer Effect', no matter what kind of character or morality we believe ourselves to have. 
 
The Lucifer Effect won the William James Book Award in 2008.

Philip Zimbardo

Nikita D. Coulombe

How the digital age is changing young men forever

'Zimbardo has put his finger on a great challenge of the modern era' - The Sunday Times 
 
Masculinity is in meltdown. Young men are failing as never before — academically, socially and sexually. But why? And what needs to be done? 
 
Internationally-acclaimed psychologist Philip Zimbardo, and research partner Nikita Coulombe, show how symptoms include excessive gaming and porn use, apathy and drug abuse. They argue that digital technologies create alternative worlds that many boys find less demanding and more rewarding than real life, yet which are ultimately harmful. 
 
There is hope. Man Disconnected reveals where the solutions are to be found, and what action we can take. Controversial, provocative and insightful, this book is an alarm call ignored at our peril.

Philip Zimbardo

Books by Philip Zimbardo

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