I recently saw “Stanford Prison Experiment,†a feature film based on an experiment conducted by Stanford University professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971. This is a famous study, one that is apparently cited in many psychology classes and I had heard of it. It was to study human behavior in a prison setting and a group […]
Parts of Sendai destroyed, but not its humanity
March 11, 2011, 2:47 p.m., a date and time no one in Miyagi Prefecture and the Tohoku Region will ever forget. I had just returned to the Miyagi prefectural government office after visiting one of our local miso companies. I was sitting at my desk, getting ready for a meeting with my boss, when the […]