Lucifer Effect : Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Here's one for Jakob: Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his team of investigators selected twenty-four young men to participate in their study of the psychology of imprisonment. The reviewer notes: He is much too emotionally involved in the outcome steering his actors around for the resulting behavior to be scientifically reliable. Looks like compelling reading nonetheless.

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Yeah, Zimbardo, Milgram and Ashe are among the giants in the field of social psychology. Some may have ethical concerns re the research they carried out, some don't (many psych profs), but it's still fascinating what they found out.