The Lucifer Effect (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Burdan
• Geoff Landry
• Carlo Prescott
• Craig Haney
• Sarge
• Markus
• Milgram
• John Wayne
• David Jaffe
• Doug
• Mcdermott
• John Landry
• Mother Teresa
• Darby
• Curt Banks
• Asch
• Phil
• Zimbardo
• Nathan Hale
• Hitler
• Bob
• Christina
• Richard
• Dave
• Dunkin
• Pauline
• Gandhi
• Thompson
• Debbie
• Joe

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• “"...that means adopting a public health approach in place of the standard medical model approach to curing individual ills and wrongs. However, unless we become sentsitive to the real power of the System, which is invariably hidden behind a veil of secrecy, and fully understand its own set of rules and regulations, behavioral change will be transient and situational change illusory."”

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• Evil consists in intentionally behaving in ways that harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent others—or using one’s authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf. In short, it is “knowing better but doing worse.”4

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• Most of us have a tendency both to overestimate the importance of dispositional qualities and to underestimate the importance of situational qualities when trying to understand the causes of other people’s behavior.

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• With public fear notched up and the enemy threat imminent, reasonable people act irrationally, independent people act in mindless conformity, and peaceful people act as warriors.

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• One thesis of this book is that most of us know ourselves only from our limited experiences in familiar situations that involve rules, laws, policies, and pressures that constrain us.

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity.

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• Systems, not just dispositions and situations, must be taken into account in order to understand complex behavior patterns.

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• The terrible paradox of the Inquisition is that the ardent and often sincere desire to combat evil generated evil on a grander scale than the world had ever seen before.

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• Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards…helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. —Albert Bandura20

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• Any deed that any human being has ever committed, however horrible, is possible for any of us—under the right or wrong situational circumstances. That knowledge does not excuse evil; rather, it democratizes it, sharing its blame among ordinary actors rather than declaring it the province only of deviants and despots—of Them but not Us.

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• The message of this little demonstration is that conditions that make us feel anonymous, when we think that others do not know us or care to, can foster antisocial, self-interested behaviors.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Stanford County
• Vandy
• Palo Alto
• United States
• Iraq
• Jonestown
• San Francisco
• California
• Vietnam
• Germany
• Jordan Hall
• Berkeley
• Hole
• Rwanda
• Auschwitz
• Frankenstein
• Poland

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Philip G. Zimbardo (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 155.962

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Applied Psychology
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Reference
• Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Ethics & Morality
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo: Book site.

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