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Philip G. Zimbardo
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Area of Focus: Social

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Ph.D.  Social Psychology, Yale University, 1959.  Social psychology; investigation of causes, correlates, and consequences of various time perspectives; conceptual and empirical development of my Discontinuity Theory of Madness  (cognitive, social, behavioral dynamics in the etiology of "normal" symptoms of psychopathology); study of the nature of mind control tactics and strategies used by cults; use of hypnosis as a methodological technique for manipulating cognitive and affective states.