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Brain food: the psychology of heroism (The Guardian)

psychotherapy:

Of all the virtues, heroism is now the most remote. Heroes are either mythic or historical characters (Achilles or Gandhi) or they are superhuman (Spider-Man, or even 9/11 firefighters). What they are not is one of us. Our age has role models and it has celebrities, but it has no room for heroes.

Fighting to revive heroism is Philip Zimbardo, the septuagenarian who is probably the most famous living psychologist in the world…

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    That experiment and others convinced Zimbardo that ordinary people could be driven to evil acts if put in horrific...
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