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I'm interviewing Phil Zimbardo for PSYCHOLOGOY TODAY, not only because I am a professor of psychology myself, but because I've been married to the man for 28 years, and can therefore ask some more personal questions.

For many people, Dr. Zimbardo, a psychology professor at Stanford University, is an intense, energetic and highly visible presence in the field of psychology. He's a researcher of such intriguing and controversial issues as the psychology of evil, madness in normal people, shyness in adults, and the impact of prisons and cults. He's an award-winning teacher whose classes attract audiences in the hundreds. If you take an introductory psychology course, you may well study from the textbook he authored, Psychology and Life, which is now in its 16th edition. And if you watched the TV series Discovering Psychology, which he wrote and hosted, you may also know him as "Uncle Phil," as do many high school students.

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