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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c.2007Edition: 2008 Random House trade pbk. edDescription: xx, 551 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780812974447 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF789.E94 ZIM 2007
Contents:
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.
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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.

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