What makes good people do bad things? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has an answer, and in The Lucifer Lff
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Table of 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.