NEW TO ISHK
THE LUCIFER EFFECT
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo
Random House, 2007

LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn how good people can become perpetrators of dehumanizing behavior
• Learn about the most-cited psychological experiment of our time: The Stanford Prison Experiment
• Learn that any one can abandon good moral judgment and resort to violence and oppression
• Learn about the impact of the destructive system of such an experiment
• Analyze social dynamics, power, conformity; obedience, deindividuation, and moral disengagement
• Learn how good people can be seduced by social power and abstract ideologies of others
• Understand why people lack faith in their power to resist situational influences
• Analyze and understand what happened in Abu Ghraib prison
• Learn the dimensions in Zimbardo’s heroism model

Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University. He is two-time past president of the Western Psychological Association and past president of the American Psychological Association. He is responsible for the PBS series, Discovering Psychology. He has authored over 300 publications, including one of the most widely-read introductory psychology textbooks.