The Heroic Imagination Project

Audio Report on Feb 21, 2011 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Topics: Health, Radio

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a notorious psychology experiment: the Stanford Prison Experiment. It showed that average, well-adjusted people could act cruelly, even sadistically, under the right circumstances. Now, the scientist who led those experiments is wondering whether the opposite is true. Can a regular, run-of-the-mill person be made to do extraordinary, even heroic things?

Additional Links

• The Heroic Imagination Project
• The Stanford Prison Experiment
• Can Heroes Be Made?