The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. In this book, Philip Zimbardo summarizes more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm" which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what Zimbardo calls the "Lucifer Effect," named after God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan.

Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, Zimbardo offers a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts.