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26%OFFPhilip Zimbardo - The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil - 9781846041037 - V9781846041037
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The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

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Description for The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil Paperback. Examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. The author challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.

In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers.

At the same time he describes the safeguards we can put in place to prevent ourselves from corrupting - or being corrupted by - others, and what sets some people apart as heroes and heroines, able to resist powerful pressures to go along with the group, and to refuse to be team players when personal integrity is at stake.

Using the first in-depth analysis of his classic Stanford Prison Experiment, and his personal experiences as an expert witness for one of the Abu Ghraib prison guards, Zimbardo's stimulating and provocative book raises fundamental questions about the nature of good and evil, and how each one of us needs to be vigilant to prevent becoming trapped in the 'Lucifer Effect', no matter what kind of character or morality we believe ourselves to have.

The Lucifer Effect won the William James Book Award in 2008.

Product Details

Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846041037
SKU
V9781846041037
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

About Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale, NYU and Columbia. He was elected President of the American Psychological Association in 2002 and is founder of the National Center for the Psychology of Terrorism. Widely respected as an innovative researcher and writer, he presented the award-winning video series Discovering Psychology and his Stanford Prison Experiment has also featured many times on TV. His website www.prisonexperiment.org has received 15 million hits in 4 years, and the one specially set up for this book can be found at: www.LuciferEffect.org

Reviews for The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
An important book...all politicians and social commentators should read it
Sunday Times
Detailed and absorbing...masterly and honest
Mary Warnock, Times Higher Education Supplement
Formidable
Observer
This important book is very readable
Spectator
One of the most distinguished social scientists of our age
Catholic Herald
Zimbardo's anatomy of human psychology and contemporary culture is as scholarly as it is scary
Brian Keenan
Professor Zimbardo deserves heartfelt thanks for disclosing and illuminating the dark, hidden corners of the human soul.
Vaclev Havel, former President of the Czech Republic
"The Lucifer Effect" will change forever the way you think about why we behave the way we do
and, in particular, about the human potential for evil. This is a disturbing book, but one that has never been more necessary.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink

Goodreads reviews for The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil


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