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6 - My Contributions to Social Psychology Over Many Decades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Philip G. Zimbardo
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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I was born during the 1930s depression and raised in the South Bronx, New York, a Catholic second-generation Italian – 100 percent Sicilian, to be precise. A product of the mean streets and the public schools, I loved school and every one of my teachers whose mission I believed was to help Me to succeed in life. I was a really good student, confident, hardworking, socially popular, and happy with my place at James Monroe High School. Then in 1947, for my junior year, my family moved to North Hollywood, California. This imagined paradise turned out to be my social nightmare. For reasons I could not understand, I was shunned by classmates, socially rejected by every one of them. I developed various sicknesses (now known as psychosomatic) that often forced me to stay home from dreaded North Hollywood High School. Why was I being outed?

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 43 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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