Title:
The Lucifer effect : understanding how good people turn evil / Philip Zimbardo.
Author:
Zimbardo, Philip G.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
Call Number:
BF789.E94 Z56 2008
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006050388-b.html
Edition:
Random House trade pbk ed.
ISBN:
9780812974447
Physical Description:
xx, 551 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Random House, 2007.
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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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