by Philip Zimbardo
Zimbardo uses his Stanford prison experiment to argue that good people turn evil through situational forces, not character flaws. Systems and authority corrupt more reliably than personality.
In this collection, The Lucifer Effect references 1 other book and is cited by 6 other books.
It draws on Influence.
It’s picked up by The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and 3 others.
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The Lucifer Effect is treated as a landmark work on how ordinary people commit terrible acts, and its influence stretches well beyond psychology. Robert Cialdini draws on Zimbardo's research when discussing authority and obedience, while Isabel Wilkerson cites the Stanford Prison Experiment in Caste to show how assigned social roles produce cruelty even among people with no personal animosity. Michelle Alexander and Ibram X.
Kendi both use Zimbardo's framework to explain how institutional power and dehumanization drive systemic injustice. Readers find the book's central argument -- that evil is situational, not dispositional -- both liberating and unsettling, though some note that later scrutiny of the Stanford Prison Experiment's methodology has complicated Zimbardo's conclusions.
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Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect supplies the social-psychology framework Aral extends when explaining how platform design elicits tribal in-group behavior
Echoes Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect analysis of how institutional roles and dehumanization produce cruelty, applied to prosecutors, guards, and executioners inside the death-penalty system
Draws on Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect research on dehumanization and situational power to explain routine police and prosecutorial conduct inside the drug war
Cites Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect and Stanford Prison Experiment to show how assigned caste roles produce cruelty even among people with no personal animosity
Draws on Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect research on situational power and dehumanization to explain how ordinary people enforce racist policies
Cialdini draws on Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect when discussing the authority principle. Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment is one of his central examples of how assigned roles produce compliance with harmful orders.
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