The Lucifer Effect - How Good People Turn Evil

Informationen zum Autor Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale, NYU and Columbia. He was elected President of the American Psychological Association in 2002. Widely respected as an innovative researcher and writer, he presented the award-winning video series Discovering Psychology. www.zimbardo.com Klappentext Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has also taught at Yale, NYU and Columbia. He was elected President of the American Psychological Association in 2002 and is founder of the National Center for the Psychology of Terrorism. Widely respected as an innovative researcher and writer, he presented the award-winning video series Discovering Psychology and his Stanford Prison Experiment has also featured many times on TV. His website www.prisonexperiment.org has received 15 million hits in 4 years, and the one specially set up for this book can be found at: www.LuciferEffect.org Zusammenfassung Examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. The author challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers.

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• Authors: Philip Zimbardo, Philip G. Zimbardo, Zimbardo Philip
• Publisher: Rider
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2008
• EAN: 9781846041037
• ISBN: 978-1-84604-103-7
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Sozialpsychologie, Böse, Das Böse, Experimental Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Violence in society, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Violence and abuse in society, Ethical issues and debates, film; stanford prison experiment; human nature