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The Lucifer Effect
- Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
- Narrated by: Kevin Foley
- Length: 26 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect
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. Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into guards and inmates and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week, the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners. By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the "bad apple" with 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 to act heroically.
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- Roshan
- 24-04-24
startk realities of sociology and psychology
I liked learning the from a social perspective how an environment influences a person.
The amount of ruthless human behaviour detailed in this analysis is mind numbing though.
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- Girish B Hukkeri
- 14-05-21
Compelling Honest Brutal Provides the solution
This Compelling, Brutally Honest high fidelity account of the Stanford Prison Experiment is not for the weak hearted. I had to prepare myself to go through the book.
The author Philip Zimbardo has put great efforts sustained over decades to share the details on how the Lucifer Effect affects us under the situational & systemic factors! There is lot to learn about the human nature under pressure.
Highly recommended for those who are disturbed by the evil regimes affecting the societies!
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