The Lucifer Effect
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THE LUCIFER EFFECT is an attempt to offer psychological understanding of the processes of transformation at work when good or ordinary people do bad or evil things. It deals with the ages-old, most fundamental, question, "What makes people go wrong?" Instead of the traditional philosophical analysis of nature versus nuture, of abstract noble savages and blank-slated minds writ upon by experience, we will look at real people emgaged with life's tasks, enmeshed in doing their jobs, ensconced in surviving within a crucible of human nature. Our psychological definition of evil is a simple, psychologically based one" "Intentionally behaving is ways that harm others, abuse, demean, dehumanise, destroy others, or use one's power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf". It is "knowing better, but doing worse . . .
Author: Philip Zimbardo
Format: Hardback, 576 pages, 157mm x 240mm, 888 g
Published: 2007, Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Psychology: Professional & General
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THE LUCIFER EFFECT is an attempt to offer psychological understanding of the processes of transformation at work when good or ordinary people do bad or evil things. It deals with the ages-old, most fundamental, question, "What makes people go wrong?" Instead of the traditional philosophical analysis of nature versus nuture, of abstract noble savages and blank-slated minds writ upon by experience, we will look at real people emgaged with life's tasks, enmeshed in doing their jobs, ensconced in surviving within a crucible of human nature. Our psychological definition of evil is a simple, psychologically based one" "Intentionally behaving is ways that harm others, abuse, demean, dehumanise, destroy others, or use one's power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf". It is "knowing better, but doing worse . . .
The Lucifer Effect