From this time zimbardo has made it his lifes work to understand the process whereby people succumb to the lucifer effect and what we can do to protect ourselves against it. This message permeates through philip zimbardos the lucifer effect. Now, they continue to explore blind obedience to authority and how social influences can have a negative impact on your life. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the lucifer effect. The experiment was originally based on the 1971 stanford prison experiment carried out by professor philip zimbardo to understand the development of norms and the effects of roles, labels, and social expectations in a simulated prison environment with some students of standford university playing prisoners and others playing guards.
The situation is more important than a persons disposition. Perhaps this image reminds you of the ultimate transformation of good into evil, the metamorphosis of lucifer into satan. I am psychology professor philip zimbardo here with nikita coulombe aua. Dec 19, 2011 the situation is more important than a persons disposition. The lucifer effect 2007 is a nonfiction book written by philip zimbardo, an american psychologist and a professor emeritus at stanford university. Understanding how good people turn evil, first appeared, he and dr. Booklist in the stanford prison experiment, philip zimbardo bottled evil in a laboratory. Philip george zimbardo is an american psychologist and a professor emeritus at stanford university. Phil examined what makes a good person do bad things. In the experiment, college students were randomly assigned to. The lucifer result seeks to inform the story of that experiment thoroughly.
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