The Lucifer effect : understanding how good people turn evil - Zimbardo, Philip G., 1933-2024 (New York : Rider, 2009)
The psychology of evil: situated character transformations -- Sunday's surprise arrests -- Let Sunday's degradation rituals begin -- Monday's prisoner rebellion -- Tuesday's double trouble: visitors and rioters -- Wednesday is spiraling out of control -- The power to parole -- Thursday's reality confrontations -- Friday's fade to black -- The SPE's meaning and messages: the alchemy of character transformations -- The SPE: ethics and extensions -- Investigating social dynamics: power, conformity, and obedience -- Investigating social dynamics: deindividuation, dehumanization, and the evil of inaction -- Abu Ghraib's abuses and tortures: understanging and personalizing its horrors -- Putting the system on trial: command complicity -- Resisting situational influences and celebrating heroism.
Keywords: Good and evil -- Psychological aspects