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What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how-and the myriad reasons why-we are all susceptible to the lure of ”the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into ”guards” and ”inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college 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 better understand a variety 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 ”bad apple” with that of the ”bad barrel”-the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we mightnot be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even 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 that will change the way we view human behavior.
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作者簡介
菲利普．金巴多(Philip Zimbardo)
為史丹福大學心理學退休榮譽教授，曾任教於耶魯大學、紐約大學及哥倫比亞大學。他是知名教科書《心理學》（Psychology and Life）作者之一，與其著作《害羞》（Shyness），兩書總銷售量已逾兩百五十萬本。
金巴多曾為美國心理協會主席，目前為史丹福恐怖主義跨領域政策、教育和研究中心主任。他也在美國公共電視網獲獎節目〈發現心理學〉擔任旁白，並協助製作。在二○○四年，出任伊拉克阿布葛拉伊布監獄虐囚案其中一位監獄守衛的專家證人。
史丹福監獄實驗專屬網站：www.prisonexperiment.org，每年瀏覽次數超過上百萬人次。參訪作者個人網頁請至：www.zimbardo.com，本書網頁請至：www.LuciferEffect.com。
Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He is the co-author of Psychology and Life and author of Shyness, which together have sold more than 2.5 million copies. Zimbardo has been president of the American Psychological Association and is now director of the Stanford Center on Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism. He also narrated the award-winning PBS series Discovering Psychology, which he helped create. In 2004, he acted as an expert witness in the court-martial hearings of one of the American army reservists accused of criminal behavior in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
