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Recommended resources
Books:
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential — and Endangered, by Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011.
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men, by Leonard Sax. Basic Books, 2009. boysadrift.com
The Myth of Male Power, by Warren Farrell. Berkley Trade, 2001. warrenfarrell.org
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, by Jane McGonigal. Penguin Press, 2011. realityisbroken.org
Films:
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, directed by Rachel Dretzin. PBS Films (Frontline), 2010. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/
Journeyman, directed by Charlie Borden and Kevin Obsatz. MirrorMan Films, 2007. mirrormanfilms.org/film.html
The Medicated Child, directed by Marcela Gaviria. PBS Films (Frontline), 2008. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/
Raising Cain: Boys in Focus, directed by Paul Stern. PBS Films, 2006. pbs.org/opb/raisingcain/
About the authors
Philip G. Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely viewed PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, as well as his media appearances, best-selling trade books, and his classic research, the Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo has been president of the American Psychological Association (2002), president of the Western Psychological Association (twice) and chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP); he is currently chair of the Western Psychological Foundation.
Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now emeritus), having taught previously at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He also continues to teach at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and is a professor at Palo Alto University. Zimbardo has received numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer and media contributor, and for service to the profession of psychology. Among his more than 400 professional publications, including 50 trade and textbooks, is the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, and Core Concepts in Psychology, now in its seventh edition. His popular book on shyness in adults was the first of its kind, as was the shyness clinic that he started in the Palo Alto, Calif., community and which continues as a treatment-research clinic.
His current passion is the Heroic Imagination Project, exploring and encouraging the psychology of everyday heroes. His recent trade books include: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007, paperback, 2008), The Time Paradox: Reconstructing the Past, Enjoying the Present, Mastering the Future (with John Boyd, Free Press, 2008) and Time Heals: The Dynamic New Treatment for PTSD (with Richard and Rosemary Sword, Wiley, 2012). The Demise of Guys is close to his heart, as he recently became a grandfather to a baby boy.
See zimbardo.com, heroicimagination.org, prisonexp.org, lucifereffect.com and thetimeparadox.com.
Nikita Duncan recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in fine art and psychology. She combined these interests for her senior thesis, creating a provocative series of paintings, Orgasms: Portraits of Sexual Energy, which resulted in a book, Orgasms: Art & Psyche (with Veronica Monet, Blurb, 2009). She met Phil Zimbardo in San Francisco while her paintings were on exhibit, and she has been collaborating on projects with him ever since. She assisted him in the early development of the Heroic Imagination Project, the nonprofit he founded in 2008. She is passionate about research, writing, human sexuality and art. Check out her website at nikitaduncan.com.
The Demise of Guys hits home for her because she has three brothers, all in their 20s, who were all diagnosed with ADHD in their teens and experienced many of the issues presented here. One of her most unusual research assignments for Demise was immersing herself in Internet porn for three days and nights. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to conduct many of the interviews featured in this book.
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On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and its partners available to the world for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available online, with more being added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various other languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
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