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Philip ZImbardo on the Lucifer Effect

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Jennifer Eberhardt

Jennifer Eberhardt's Presentation from the 2007 Law and Mind Sciences Conference

Mahzarin Banaji on Ideology

Mahzarin Banaji's Presentation from the 2008 Law and Mind Sciences Conference

Jon Jost on System Justification

System justification theory addresses the holding of attitudes that are often contrary to one's own self-interest and therefore contrary to what one would expect on the basis of theories of self-enhancement or rational self-interest. Thus, our research focuses on counter-intuitive outcomes, such as the internalization of unfavorable stereotypes about one's own group, nonconscious biases that perpetuate inequality, attitudinal ambivalence directed at fellow ingroup members who challenge the system, opposition to equality among members of disadvantaged groups, rationalization of anticipated social and political outcomes, and tendencies among members of powerless groups to subjectively enhance the legitimacy of their powerlessness and, in some cases, to show greater support for the system than do members of powerful groups