Author: Philip Zimbardo
Translator: Choong-ho Lee, Ji-won Lim
Publisher: Woongjin.com
Hardcover | 734 pages | 243*170mm
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About This Book
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to
act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is
in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The
Lucifer Effect he explains how -- and the myriad reasons why -- we are
all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side." Drawing on examples from
history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how
situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make
monsters out of decent men and women.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison
Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full
story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student
volunteers was randomly divided into "guards" and "inmates" and then
placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was
abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either
brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing
metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of
harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to
how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi
detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the "bad
apple" with that of the "bad barrel" -- the idea that the social setting
and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way
around.
This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us
that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine
what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of
behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable
of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act
heroically. Like Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven
Pinker’s The Blank Slate, The Lucifer Effect is a shocking, engrossing
study that will change the way we view human behavior.
About the Author
Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford
University and has also taught at Yale University, New York University,
and Columbia University. He is the co-author of Psychology and Life and
author of Shyness, which together have sold more than 2.5 million
copies. Zimbardo has been president of the American Psychological
Association and is now director of the Stanford Center on
Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism. He also
narrated the award-winning PBS series Discovering Psychology, which he
helped create. In 2004, he acted as an expert witness in the
court-martial hearings of one of the American army reservists accused of
criminal behavior in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. His informative
website, www.prisonexperiment.org is visited by millions every year.
Visit the author’s personal website at www.zimbardo.com.
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