Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Zimbardo on Evil

Dr. Phillip Zimbardo has a new book out, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. In a review in the New York Times, he discusses his famous prison experiment and compares it to Milgram's earlier obedience research.

In that review he states, "In a lot of ways, the studies (his prison study and Milgram's obedience study) are bookends in our understanding of evil."

We agree. Chapter 3 of our text capitalizes on his book end metaphor nicely, we think.

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