A situationist perspective on the psychology of evil: Understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators.

By P. Zimbardo. 2004

244 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b78b02c1b255e7eb69d7fd7096311889902a38b4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

MECHANISMS OF MORAL DISENGAGEMENT IN SUPPORT OF MILITARY FORCE: THE IMPACT OF SEPT. 11 (2006, background): “The exercise of moral control is also weakened when personal agency is obscured by diffusing responsibility for detrimental behavior (Bandura, Underwood, & Fromson, 1975; Zimbardo, 2004).”
Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application (2015, background): “Balanced Time Perspective, understood as the optimal mix of time perspective, allowing an individual to optimize his or her functioning through fl exible switching between adaptive views of each time zone, this remains a core of the Time Perspective theory (Boniwell and Zimbardo 2004 ).”
The Uses of Violence: An Examination of Some Cross-Cutting Issues (2009, background): “Situational explanations o-en refer to the famous Milgram experiments and argue that under speci"c situational contexts any person can be made to behave aggressively (Zimbardo 2004).”
A classmate in distress: schoolchildren as bystanders and their reasons for how they act (2007, background): “Social processes (e.g., Latené & Darley, 1970; Bandura, 2002; Zimbardo, 2004; Rigby & Johnson, 2006; Thornberg, 2006a) and feelings like empathy (e.”
Creating a larger role for environmental psychology: The Reasonable Person Model as an integrative framework (2009, background): “In a thoughtful review of the relationship of the ‘‘situatiotionist perspective on the psychology of evil,’’ Zimbardo (2004) discusses not only his study of the simulated prison, but also Milgram’s research on obedience to immoral commands.”
The Decision Making Individual Differences Inventory and guidelines for the study of individual differences in judgment and decision-making research (2011, background): “Today the debate continues amid increasing evidence that the answer is neither one (the person, e.g., Allport, 1937; Digman, 1990) nor the other (the situation, e.g., Mil-gram, 1974; Zimbardo, 2004), but rather the two in combination (e.g., Mischel, 1968, 2004).”
Making a Virtue of Evil: A Five‐Step Social Identity Model of the Development of Collective Hate (2008, background): “…in a simulated prison setting, and although the study was scheduled to last 2 weeks, it had to be halted after 6 days because the guards were becoming increasingly brutal, whereas the prisoners were becoming increasingly damaged (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973; Zimbardo, 1989, 2004, 2007).”