The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo · first published 2007 · ISBN 9781400064113
Zimbardo examines the Stanford Prison Experiment alongside historical atrocities and everyday examples of moral failure. He argues that ordinary people can commit extraordinary harm when social systems and situations override personal values, and explores how the line between good and evil is thinner than we believe.
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A cornerstone of social psychology teaching, this book builds critical thinking about one of psychology's most famous studies while introducing situational and systemic explanations for behavior. For grad school, you need to engage with both its insights and its controversies.