View The Lucifer Effect Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Pics. The lucifer effect explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of the dar renowned social psychologist and creator of the stanford prison experiment, philip zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things, how moral people can be seduced. , donald rumsfeld, situat the lucifer effect :

Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Zimbardo's three tiered analysis categories are: Understanding how good people turn evil.

Though he chooses not to explicitly define evil in the.

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