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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip G. Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Dissecting humanity’s capacity for evil deeds.

"The Lucifer Effect" might just shake your core beliefs about human nature. Zimbardo isn't telling a simple tale; he's unpacking the complex, uncomfortable truth about society's potential for cruelty. If you've ever pondered why ordinary folks sometimes turn villainous, this book offers compelling insight, backed by a famous experiment which saw average students morph into tyrants and victims. It's more than history; it's a call to scrutinize and improve the systems shaping our behavior.

  • William James Book Award (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip G. Zimbardo
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ISBN: 9780812974447
Authors: Philip G. Zimbardo
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date of Publication: 2008-01-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Politics, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Science
Related Topics: Personal Development, Psychology, Sociology, History, Politics, History, Politics, History, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 24791 readers)

Description

The definitive firsthand account of the groundbreaking research of Philip Zimbardo—the basis for the award-winning film The Stanford Prison Experiment. Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things, how moral people can be seduced into acting immorally, and what this says about the line separating good from evil. The Lucifer Effect explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women. By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena. He replaces the long-held notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”—the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around. This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves
 

Dissecting humanity’s capacity for evil deeds.

"The Lucifer Effect" might just shake your core beliefs about human nature. Zimbardo isn't telling a simple tale; he's unpacking the complex, uncomfortable truth about society's potential for cruelty. If you've ever pondered why ordinary folks sometimes turn villainous, this book offers compelling insight, backed by a famous experiment which saw average students morph into tyrants and victims. It's more than history; it's a call to scrutinize and improve the systems shaping our behavior.

  • William James Book Award (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.