Heroism 101

Read these articles for everything you need to get started on heroism.

The Banality of Heroism

Zeno Franco & Philip Zimbardo - Greater Good Magazine (2006)
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Fostering the Heroic Imagination

Zeno Franco, Kathy Blau, & Philip Zimbardo - Eye on Psi Chi (2009)
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Could You be a Hero?

Elizabeth Svoboda - Scholastic (2013)
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What’s Holding You Back From Becoming a Hero?

Scott T. Allison - Psychology Today (2015)
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The Captain Who Fell into the Lifeboat

Zeno Franco & Matt Langdon - Greater Good Magazine (2012)
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The Making of a Hero: Cultivating Empathy, Altruism, and Heroic Imagination

Ari Kohen, Matt Langdon and Brian R. Riches - Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2017)
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Academic Articles

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Heroism Research: A Review of Theories, Methods, Challenges, and Trends

Zeno E. Franco, Scott T. Allison, Elaine L. Kinsella, Ari Kohen, Matt Langdon, and Philip G. Zimbardo - Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2018)
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The Hero and the Internet: Exploring the Emergence of the Cyberhero Archetype

Dana Klisanin - Media Psychology Review (2012)
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Lay Perspectives on the Social and Psychological Functions of Heroes

Elaine Kinsella, Tim Ritches, & Eric Igou - Frontiers in Psychology (2015)
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The Initiation of Heroism Science

Scott T. Allison - Heroism Science (2015)
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Social Representations of Hero and Everyday Hero: A Network Study from Representative Samples

Zsolt Keczer, Bálint File, Gábor Orosz, & Phil Zimbardo (2016)
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Collaborative Heroism: An Empirical Investigation

Dana Klisanin - Heroism Science (2016)
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On the Bravery and Courage of Heroes: Considering Gender

Elaine Kinsella, Timothy Ritchie, and Eric Igou - Heroism Science (2017)
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Plato's Heroic Vision: The Difficult Choices of the Socratic Life

Ari Kohen - POLIS. Vol. 28. No.1 (2011)
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Identity and Emergency Intervention

Mark Levine, Amy Prosser, David Evans, Stephen Reichern - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2005)
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