Philip Zimbardo- The Lucifer Effect- Part 3

*WARNING*- This video contains explicit images

To watch the complete presentation please see the Lucifer Effect on the PLMS website:

http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page205767
(Run TIme Approx. 100 min.)

Professor Zimbardo's talk takes its audience on a journey through the psychological processes of character transformation that are engaged when ordinary, good people turn into perpetrators of evil.

The abuses and tortures of Abu Ghraib prison serve as the case study for understanding such horrors not as the work of a few bad apples, but rather as the consequence of a set of identifiable Situational variables and Systemic forces of the "bad barrel" and the "bad barrel makers".

PLMS
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page63708

The Situationist Blog
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/

The Lucifer Effect
http://www.lucifereffect.com/index.html

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Lucifer
• Effect
• Philip
• Phil
• Zimbardo
• Evil
• Good
• Heroes
• Psychology
• Obedience
• Abu
• Ghraib
• Stanford
• Prison
• Experiment
• Situationism
• Behavior

[IpreferMichael]

This is a phenomenal lecture and series of ideas. Everyone should take the time to understand these dynamics...

[vokshumana]

''If we fell, it was because we were prone to fall'' (Branko Miljković, Yugoslavian poet).

[n1cklass]

but then again...You can almost blame anything on this experience then ? no no

[psipsychologytutor]

Systems analysis is definitly the way to go~ looking at all the elements that create a dominator-dominated culture that enables behaviours such as these to take place in certain situations.

[zurapDOR]

I always consider the rebels and outlaws those who fought collective evil and blind systems the good guys, now it's confirmed..

[ToryMagoo44]

Yes! You can do it without drugs::: Join the "church of Scientology"----you'll watch good people turn evil. I was part of it, woke up, escaped OUT and they've been lying about me for 10 years now. How can you decide who is good, who is evil? Good people will say: Read, look, listen, make up your *own* mind. Evil people say you MUST do it their way, and never look at the 'other' side. Keep reading, looking, listening. This is key to learn. :)

[pateliotes]

NENER UNDER ESTIMATE THE POWER OF IGNORANCE IN LARGE GROUPS

[HIMYNAMEISEVAN]

isn't this guy talking about group theory?

[RoyalKnightVII]

@bertdockx Well "regular" combat is a bit weird but oh well.

Thanks for the reply!

[bertdockx]

@RoyalKnightVII that's what i asked myself immediately too. if they are from 'regular combat', i think it's a bit sensational and misleading to put them in the presentation.

[skb0rzn]

@IpreferMichael Absolutely! This explains the police brutality problem and has answered my question; If / When we become a true policed state who in the world would harm another citizen for political reasons, why would a "god fearing" american harm another person and treat them as combatives? The answer YOU AND ME if we let them and ourself.

[suutari13]

The soldiers did what they were told to do in Abu Ghraib by their leaders.