Please join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the latest (Fall/Winter 2006-07) issue of Greater Good, the acclaimed new magazine based at UC Berkeley. The panel will feature the magazine’s editors and contributors, including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo (of the famed Stanford Prison Experiment) and New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Ted Jackson.

They will discuss the new issue’s contents, including several essays on “the psychology of the bystander.” The event will feature a slide show of Jackson’s work on Hurricane Katrina and consider the question of when reporters should intervene in the stories they cover and when they should remain bystanders. The editors will also explain how local writers can contribute to the magazine’s unique blend of science reporting and storytelling.

This is a free event.

Panelists:

Zeno Franco is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He recently completed a three-year U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fellowship. His essay “The Banality of Heroism” (co-authored with Philip Zimbardo) in the latest issue of Greater Good explores the factors that may induce ordinary people to perform acts of heroism– or be complicit in acts of evil.

Ted Jackson is a staff photographer for the New Orleans Times- Picayune, where he covers news, sports, social issues, and long- term projects. In 1997, he was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for “Oceans of Trouble,” a comprehensive look at the impending collapse of the world’s fisheries. He contributed a photo essay to the latest issue of Greater Good, “The Eye of the Storm,” revealing the ethical dilemmas he confronted while covering Hurricane Katrina.

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, and Jason Marsh are the co-editors of Greater Good. In the latest issue, they co-authored an article, “We Are All Bystanders,” about scientific research into why some people help others in distress, while other bystanders do nothing.

Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, a two-time past president of the Western Psychological Association, and a past president of the American
Psychological Association. He is internationally recognized as an innovative researcher in many areas of psychology and has been called the “voice and image of modern psychology” because of his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology. His Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) is a classic demonstration of the power of situational forces to overwhelm ordinary, good people. Professor Zimbardo wrote an essay (co-authored with Zeno Franco) for the latest issue of Greater Good on “The Banality of Heroism,” exploring the factors that may induce ordinary people to perform acts of heroism–or be complicit in evil. His latest book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, will be published by Random House in March.

For more information about Greater Good, please see: www.greatergoodmag.org

Presented by: The Graduate School of Journalism Felker Magazine Center and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley (formerly the Center for the Development of Peace and Well-Being)