Jochen, It is a wonderful video, but I worry about the content. Zimbardo's ability to mix a small amount of science with a lot of common-sense vacuous, but appealing, bull shit, never ceases to amaze me. For example, "All addictions are addictions of present hedonism." Really? Have we checked ALL addictions. Do we have a good enough definition of 'addiction' to really test the hypothesis? Is that merely true by definition? If I came up with an alternative example, like say a compulsive collector of past-related items (old baseball cards, records, civil war memorabilia), would you simply keep twisting it until you could justify it in terms of your original statement. I think at least half of the things said could be subjected to similar criticism. For another example, as a kid I played far more than 10,000 hours of video games, I'm not so sure there is a direct relationship between that and school/life failure. Correlation? Maybe, but I'll bet Phil's intro stats classes mentioned something about the relationship between correlation and causation.
And yet I maintain my faith that in subjects other than Psychology Stanford has important people. Eric On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 07:01 AM, "Jochen Fromm" <[email protected]> wrote: > In this wonderfully animated video, Philip Zimbardo >talks about the geography of time, time perspectives, >online gaming and sit-down family diners >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg > >-J. > > > >============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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