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The Shyness Clinic
The Shyness Clinic is a clinic founded in the late 1970s by Dr. Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Its goal is to research cognitive traits in people with shyness and to offer treatment programs for those specific impairments. It was later moved to the community of Palo Alto, California Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno .... The clinic follows a "social fitness model", which encourages people to exercise socially. References The Shy Break Free – Chicago TribuneFacing fears helps shyness, experts sayTimidity troubles?(help for shy businesspeople)(Brief Article) , HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared External links Clinics in California Shyness Medical and health organizations based in California {{US-health-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Zimbardo
Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including ''The Lucifer Effect'', ''The Time Paradox'', and ''The Time Cure''. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. Early life Zimbardo was born in New York City on March 23, 1933, to a family of Italian immigrants from Cammarata in Sicily. Early in life he experienced discrimination and prejudice, growing up poor on welfare and being Italian. He was often mistaken for other races and ethnicities such as Jewish, Puerto Rican or black. Zimbardo has said these experiences early in life triggered his curiosity about people's behavior, and later influenced his research in school. He complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
