A review by pkiwi
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo

3.0

Both the Stanford Prison Experiment and the situation in the Abu Ghraib prison are very interesting as psychological cases and instructive as to how things shouldn't be done. It's a pity Zimbardo is too repetitive when explaining the underlying mechanisms. The first part of the book, a day to day description of the SPE reads like a novel. Everything else is mostly a much too long exposition on situational forces. Three stars for interesting subject and good beginning of an otherwise much too long book.