The Lucifer effect : understanding how good people turn evil / Philip Zimbardo.

Author: Zimbardo, Philip G.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Random House, c2007.

Descriptionxx, 551 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:The psychology of evil: situated character transformations -- Sunday's surprise arrests -- Let Sunday's degradation rituals begin -- Monday's prisoner rebellion -- Tuesday's double trouble: visitors and rioters -- Wednesday is spiraling out of control -- The power to parole -- Thursday's reality confrontations -- Friday's fade to black -- The SPE's meaning and messages: the alchemy of character transformations -- The SPE: ethics and extensions -- Investigating social dynamics: power, conformity, and obedience -- Investigating social dynamics: deindividuation, dehumanization, and the evil of inaction -- Abu Ghraib's abuses and tortures: understanging and personalizing its horrors -- Putting the system on trial: command complicity -- Resisting situational influences and celebrating heroism.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-533) and index.

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