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THE LUCIFER EFFECT
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo
Random House, 2007
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Learn how good people can become perpetrators of dehumanizing behavior
• Learn about the most-cited psychological experiment of our time: The Stanford Prison Experiment
• Learn why pacifists became sadistic
• Learn about the principle called the evil of inaction
• Learn that any one can abandon good moral judgment and resort to violence and oppression
• Learn about the impact of the destructive system of such an experiment
• Learn the effect of shame on those in submissive roles
• Analyze social dynamics, power, conformity; obedience, deindividuation, and moral disengagement
• Learn how good people can be seduced by social power and abstract ideologies of others
• Understand why people lack faith in their power to resist situational influences
• Analyze and understand what happened in Abu Ghraib prison
• Learn the dimensions in Zimbardo’s heroism model
This book describes the history and social psychological principles behind the most-cited psychological experiment of our time: the Stanford Prison Experiment. The Stanford Prison Experiment randomly assigned students to be prisoners or guards for a planned two-week prison study. The study had to be terminated after six days because it got out of control. Pacifists became sadistic, and normal students were breaking down. Principles analyzed include: conformity; obedience to authority; role-playing; dehumanization; deindividuation; and moral disengagement. A new principle is proposed: the evil of inaction.
Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University. He is two-time past president of the Western Psychological Association and past president of the American Psychological Association. He is responsible for the PBS series, Discovering Psychology. He has authored over 300 publications, including one of the most widely-read introductory psychology textbooks.
576 pages
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