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25%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 ... Read more

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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
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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 ... Read more

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

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