THE LUCIFER EFFECT:


UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOD PEOPLE TURN EVIL

by PHILIP ZIMBARDO

New York Times Bestseller by Philip G. Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment 


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The Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual, or aberrant behavior, we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes, personality, and character, as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge readers to reflect on how well they really know themselves, and how much confidence they have in what they would or would not ever do when put into new behavioral settings.


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