The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

By X. Bosch. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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External Rebel Sponsorship and Civilian Abuse: A Principal-Agent Analysis of Wartime Atrocities (2014, neutral): “Zimbardo 2007.”
Rehabilitation: Beyond Nothing Works (2013, background): “The classic 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, administered by Zimbardo and his colleagues (1973), cemented the view that prisons were inherently inhumane and thus could not function as therapeutic milieus (see also Zimbardo 2007).”
The entanglement of leader character and leader competence and its impact on performance (2017, background): “Zimbardo (2007) concluded that “situations matter,” the line between good and evil is not fixed but permeable, and factors such as situational power, and the power of rules and roles, can transform individuals' personality and character in unexpected ways.”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “” Fully appreciating the implications of these studies, and the broader lesson about the power of the types of situational variables that social psychologists explore, reduces the surprise experienced upon learning that most of the low-level perpetrators of the horrors of the Holocaust, such as conc”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “of an institution or of their country, such as prison guard, encourage violent and even sadistic behavior from ordinary individuals (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973; Zimbardo, 2007).”
Unethical and Unwell: Decrements in Well-Being and Unethical Activity at Work (2010, background): “Organizational cultures that thrive on extreme competition (Kohn, 1986) or that place people in positions of extreme power over other human beings (Zimbardo, 2007) can prod individuals to commit immoral acts.”
Worldview transformation and the development of social consciousness (2010, background): “Through this theoretical lens, individual worldviews are socially embedded and controlled by large-scale social and economic forces (Macpherson, 1962; Zaretsky, 1976; Zimbardo, 2007).”
ACCEL: A New Model for Identifying the Gifted (2016, background): “In a related demonstration, Philip Zimbardo, formerly a professor of psychology at Stanford, randomly assigned college students to one of two groups: prison guard or prisoner (see Zimbardo, 2008).”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “…and low on agency (e.g., children, animals), or low on both (e.g., the 1Although moral judgments also apply to good deeds, the bulk of psychology concerns judgments of wrongness or evil (Baumeister, 1999; Zimbardo, 2008), and so we focus primarily on immorality. deceased, inanimate objects).”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, methodology): “In this way, being an outsider may facilitate whistle-blowing, a decision akin to being a “first” non-conformist. individuals becoming moral exemplars themselves, something that Zimbardo is now considering with his “Hero Project” (Zimbardo, 2007; see also http://www.lucifereffect.com/heroismsignup.h”
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy (2013, background): “…people’s actions within the setting, enabling certain sorts of attitudes and reactive strategies to come to the fore (for related concepts, see broken windows theory, Kelling & Wilson, 1982; niche construction in human cognitive evolution, Sterelny, 2012; the Lucifer effect, Zimbardo, 2007).”
Frames of war: when is life grievable? (2010, background): “Zimbardo (2008) also poses these questions, revisiting his 1971 Stanford prison experiment to argue that in certain circumstances people can succumb to what he calls ‘the power of the situation,’ as happened to college students who took on the role of prison guards.”
Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “, defense of the ingroup against its enemies, promotion of social justice, service to God (Haidt & Graham, 2007) and (b) the suggestion that the targets of one’s aggression are subhuman and evil, hence unworthy of protection by norms governing the treatment of persons (Bandura, 1990/1998; Greenberg ”