Adapted from the Stanford Prison Experiment-"The Lucifer Effect"

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Title: Lucifer Effect
Author: [America] Philip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo
ISBN: 978-7-108-03310-9
Publication Date: 2010-03-15
Price: ¥48.00

In 1971, the social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo led the "Stanford Prison Experiment"; the experiment was like a shock bomb, detonating the global psychology community to re-examine past naive views of human nature. Thirty years later, Professor Zimbardo personally wrote about the "Lucifer Effect" for the first time, and echoed the social phenomena observed over 30 years from the "Stanford Prison Experiment" to the "Iraqi Prison Abuse Case", with a complex in-depth analysis The human nature, a comprehensive and in-depth explanation of the concept of "situational power" affecting individual behavior. In the experiment, standard physical and psychological tests were used to select college students who volunteered to serve as subjects and were physically and mentally healthy and emotionally stable. They were randomly assigned to two groups of "guards" and "prisoners", and then placed them in a simulated prison environment. . At the beginning of the experiment, the subjects felt strongly the influence of role norms and tried hard to play the assigned role. On the sixth day of the experiment, the situation became overly realistic. The original innocent college student has been transformed into a brutal guard or an emotionally broken prisoner-a uniform and an identity can easily change a person's temperament-for two weeks The experiment had to be aborted. Why are people in power so easily tempted to control others for pleasure? And why do people in disadvantaged roles often face problems with silence? In the uniquely groundbreaking "Stanford Prison Experiment" research, Professor Zimbardo will explain to readers how "situational power" and "group dynamics" can turn ordinary men and women into cruel devils. In daily life, we all strive to play our own roles, such as "male-female", "supervisor-employee", "parent-child", "teacher-student", "doctor-patient" and other relationships. Under the norms and constraints of social role scripts, will we unknowingly do unbelievable things to others like Lucifer, God's favorite angel? This book provides understanding of the reasons for the differences in status and power roles; understands the reasons for the formation and change of personal thinking, emotions and actions in the environment; helps readers re-examine and understand themselves, once faced with an unfamiliar situation, what they will and will not do What, and how to bravely resist the "Lucifer effect" in the face of the strong pressure of the situation. Suitable for readers of this book, including criminologists, educators, judges, clinical psychologists, film and novel workers, as well as parents and their children; also suitable for philanthropists who are jealous of enemies and want to save the soul, and who are preparing to stab the harlot (Husband), and especially, when you and I are lamenting the depravity of human nature, this book will open up our new hope for human civilization; recognizing the darkness will better understand where to light up.

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The Experiment quotes

  • [first lines]

    Travis: [playing shuffleboard] You suck, don't you?

    Gertrude: You suck.

    Travis: Yeah, I suck so bad I just skunked you. Which means, you gotta eat your pills.

    Gertrude: You're supposed to be nice to me.

    Travis: I am nice to you. It's not my fault you got no game.

    Gertrude: You suck, Travis.

    Travis: I know.

  • Barris: We are strangers in a strange time.