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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
3 reviews
roshanraju's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Genocide, Mental illness, Biphobia, Police brutality, Rape, Gun violence, Racism, Body shaming, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, War, Sexual violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Confinement, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts
ollie_again's review against another edition
- "they could leave any time, so why didn't they?" Maybe because you gaslighted the first guy who wanted to leave. And did so repeatedly with other "prisoners".
- the experiment did not make sense from the beginning, even the priest said, the participants did not create a realistic prison
- the set rules were tossed out of the window pretty much right away
- weird description of women, his female students more specifically
- racist slurs and stereotypes, which I could get past if this book was published in the 70s but not in a book published in 2014...
- and the description of the experiment itself are pretty tedious as he talks through the every of 6 days in the first 190p of this book... he did not seem to regret it truly, it more read like *how could I know this is bad*
- this book or what I read from it gave me an idea of who ZImbardo is as a person... and it is not this psychologist who had a misguided idea about what he was doing... it felt very systematic and he got sucked into this idea of a breakthrough experiment which will make him famous in the field... whatever the cost so I guess he succeeded in that... what he did was wrong from the very beginning
- so I have no need to read his self-righteous yammering for another 300p
Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: War, Rape, Torture, Sexism, and Gaslighting
Minor: Racial slurs and Racism
ebeckerman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Torture, War, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Rape, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Police brutality