The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Audiobook (Free)

What makes great people do awful things? How do moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the range separating great from bad, and who is at risk of crossing it?

Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo gets the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how-and the myriad reasons why-we are vunerable to the lure of ‘the dark side.’ Sketching on examples from history aswell as his own trailblazing analysis, Zimbardo details how situational causes and group dynamics can work about The Lucifer Effect: FOCUSING ON HOW Good People Change Evil in concert to create monsters out of good women and men.

Zimbardo could very well be best known seeing that the creator of the Stanford Jail Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the entire story of the landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into guards and inmates and then placed in a mock jail environment. Within a week the analysis was empty, as ordinary university 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 raised understand a number 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 ‘poor apple’ with the ‘poor barrel’-the idea that the sociable setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other method around.

This is a book that dares to carry a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we may not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we should can handle doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo offers wish. We are capable of resisting wicked, he argues, and will actually 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 which will change the way we view human being behavior.