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Materials Used in the Study
The Lucifer Effect (2007 book)
Selected Articles by Dr. Zimbardo
Selected Media Interviews
Selected Lectures and Presentations
More on the Stanford Prison Experiment:
Parallels with Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
Other Information on Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
Information on Philip G. Zimbardo
Other Prison Research
Capital Punishment
U.S. Government Sites
Prison-Related Organizations
Prisoner Rights and Reform Efforts
Other Prison-Related Sites

Materials Used in the Study (in PDF Format)

The Lucifer Effect (2007, Random House)

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (book)
The Lucifer Effect (companion web site with supplemental material)
William James Book Award Reviews (The General Psychologist)
Excerpt from The Lucifer Effect (Discover Magazine)
The Evil That Men Do (American Scientist book review)
How We Make Monsters (London Times book review)
Torture As Second Nature (London Observer book review)
Don’t Kid Yourself, We Can All Be Evil (London Times news article)
How Did It Come to This? (San Francisco Chronicle article)
The Banality of Evil (Association for Psychological Science Observer)
The Problem of Evil: Why Do "Good" People Do Bad Things? (Fox News)
Bad Apples and Bad Barrels (Scientific American review; see pp. 34-36)

Selected Articles by Dr. Zimbardo

From the Bronx to Stanford to Abu Ghraib (chapter, 2008)
The Banality of Heroism (Greater Good, Fall/Winter 2006-07)
Revisiting the Experiment (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2007)
Commentary on the "PENS Report" of the APA (July, 2006)
The Psychology of Power and Evil (manuscript, June 2005)
A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil (chapter, 2004)
Reflections from Zimbardo, Maslach, and Haney (chapter, 2000)
The Past and Future of U.S. Prison Policy (American Psychologist, 1998)
Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison (IJCP, 1973)
A Pirandellian Prison (New York Times Magazine, April 8, 1973)

Selected Media Interviews

Reaching for a Higher State of Mind (iCubed Magazine, Feb. 17, 2009)
The Lucifer Effect: An Interview with Dr. Zimbardo (neuroNARRATIVE, Oct. 20, 2008)
Zimbardo Says "No to Rumsfeld" (KZSU Stanford Radio MP3, April 20, 2008)
How Good People Turn Evil, from Stanford to Abu Ghraib (Wired, Feb. 28, 2008)
Zimbardo Unbound (Stanford Magazine, May/June, 2007)
Interview by Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air" (May 1, 2007)
Ten Questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo (April 26, 2007)
New York Times: A Conversation with Philip G. Zimbardo (April 3, 2007)
New York Times Video (9-Minute Interview) (April 3, 2007)
Interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now (March 30, 2007)
Interview on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (March 29, 2007)
Open Source Radio Interview on the Banality of Evil (March 27, 2007)
A Talk with Philip Zimbardo in "Edge" (January 19, 2005; video and transcript)
NPR Interview with Dr. Zimbardo on Iraqi Prisoner Abuse (May 4, 2004)

Selected Lectures and Presentations

The Secret Powers of Time: An Animated Video (May 24, 2010)
Cato Institute Book Forum on the Lucifer Effect (June 12, 2008)
How Ordinary People Become Monsters... or Heroes (TED talk, Feb. 29, 2008)
Harvard Law School Colloquium on the Lucifer Effect (April 3, 2007)
Big Crowd Attends Farewell Lecture of Philip Zimbardo (March 14, 2007)
Professor Zimbardo Delivers Final Stanford Lecture (March 7, 2007)
Acceptance Speech: Dagmar and Václav Havel Award (October 5, 2005)
Acceptance Speech: CPA Lifetime Achievement Award (April 5, 2003)
Transforming People into Perpetrators of Evil (memorial lecture, 1999)
Congressional Testimony on the Need for Prison Reform (October 25, 1971)

More on the Stanford Prison Experiment:

Epilogue: Some Notes on What Became of the Cast of Characters
Criticisms and Controversies Over the Experiment (bibliography)
Charting the Psychology of Evil (CNN slide show, Dec. 19, 2008)
Mind Changers: The Stanford Prison Experiment (BBC Radio, Nov. 28, 2007)
The Human Behavior Experiments (Sundance Channel, June, 2006)
SPE: Still Powerful After All These Years (Press Release, January 8, 1997)
Thirty-Year Retrospective (Stanford Report, August 22, 2001)
BBC Halts "Prison Experiment" (The Guardian, January 24, 2002)
NPR Morning Edition Segment on "Das Experiment" (Sept. 18, 2002)
Review of Quiet Rage (Prison Legal News, July 9, 2003)

Parallels with Prisoner Abuse in Iraq:

Stanford Experiment Foretold Iraq Scandal (San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2004)
Power Turns Good Soldiers into "Bad Apples" (Zimbardo editorial, May 9, 2004)
The Fine Line Between "Normal" and "Monster" (New York Times, May 6, 2004)
Researcher: It's Not Bad Apples, It's the Barrel (CNN, May 21, 2004)

Other Information on Prisoner Abuse in Iraq:

Zimbardo Helps Time Magazine Break Abu Ghraib Story (May 18, 2007)
SPE Linked to Abu Ghraib by Investigators (August , 2004; see Appendix G)
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (Army report, 2004)
The Torture Question (PBS Frontline, October 18, 2005)
Torture at Abu Ghraib (New Yorker, May 10, 2004)
Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed (60 Minutes II, April 29, 2004)
Shock, Outrage Over Prison Photos (CNN, May 1, 2004)

Information on Philip G. Zimbardo:

Home Page of Professor Philip Zimbardo
Social Psychology Network Profile of Philip Zimbardo
Web Site Honoring the Retirement of Philip Zimbardo
Zimbardo Honored by Havel Foundation (Radio Prague; see also Stanford Daily)
Participate in Q&A with Philip Zimbardo (Stanford Open Office Hours)

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