14+ The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Background. Understanding how good people turn evil / philip zimbardo. Understanding how good people turn evil is a 2007 book which includes professor philip zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 stanford prison experiment (spe).
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Understanding how good people turn evil (philip zimbardo). The lucifer effect by philip zimbardo, the social psychologist behind the infamous experiment, explores the effects of the stanford prison experiment on the participants, zimbardo himself, and the rest of the world. In trying to understand unusual, or aberrant behavior, we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes. Zimbardo then devotes much of the lucifer effect so analyzing abu.