How Monsters are Made

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What makes ordinary people do evil things? It was a question that long fascinated the psychologist Philip Zimbardo, who died in October. Zimbardo was best known for the controversial Stanford prison experiment, in which he created a simulated prison in the basement of a university building and recruited volunteers to act as prisoners and guards. This week, we explore how Zimbardo came to create one of psychology's most notorious experiments – and inadvertently became the poster child for the human weaknesses he was trying to study.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Shankar here with a quick note before we start today's show.
0:03.2	I'm bringing Hidden Brain to the stage in San Francisco and Seattle in February 2025.
0:08.6	I'll share seven psychological insights from the last decade of hosting Hidden Brain.
0:13.3	Each insight has made my life better, and I think it will do the same for you.
0:17.7	Please join me for an evening of science and storytelling.
0:23.0	More information and a link to tickets is at hiddenbrain.org slash tour. That's hiddenbrain.org slash t-o-U-R. All attendees receive
0:32.7	one year's complementary membership to the Meditation and Sleep app, Calm. Hope to see you there. Again, go to
0:40.0	hiddenbrain.org slash tour. This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedant. The biblical king
0:51.3	Solomon is set to have constructed a religious edifice nearly 3,000 years ago.
0:57.0	Accounts of the Temple of Solomon, largely drawn from the Hebrew Bible,
1:01.0	say that Solomon placed an object of incalculable value within a windowless room of the temple.
1:07.0	It was the Ark of the Covenant, a wooden chest decorated with gold.
1:13.4	Inside it were tablets, given to Moses by God, inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
1:21.1	Remnants or artifacts from the temple have never been found.
1:28.8	About 300 years ago, the Temple of Solomon became a subject of intense interest
1:33.5	to a gifted mathematician in England.
1:36.5	Isaac Newton came to believe that biblical accounts of the temple
1:39.6	contained messages and clues that could be mathematically decoded.
1:48.0	He also felt the temple's architecture contained geometrical secrets and a blueprint of human history.
1:51.0	Based on his calculations and deductions, he predicted a major event in the 21st century,
1:56.0	one that some people took to mean the end of the world as we know it.
2:05.7	Even as he dabbled in what would now be considered the occult,
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