![]() "All of the things they did at Abu Ghraib Systemic problems - that the environment encouraged some people toīecome perpetrators of evil. Zimbardoĭisagrees with the official position putting the blame on "a few badĪpples", and contends instead that the Abu Ghraib scandal stem from Release publicly, and that Zimbardo shows during his speech. He has been a witness expert in one of the casesīrought to court, which gave him access to all investigation andīackground reports - including images that the Pentagon refused to Lucifer Effect", which he calls "a celebration of the human mind’s infinite capacity to make us behave kind or cruel, nice or bad, etc."). Parallels to the Stanford experiment (and wrote a book about them: " The Evil is the exercise of power to intentionally harm people psychologically, destroy them physically and commit crimes against humanity." When in 2004 the Abu Ghraib scandal of prisoner torture andĪbuse in a US prison in Baghdad was revealed, Zimbardo saw many Good and evil are the yin and yang of the world God’s favorite angel was Lucifer, which God punished by sending to Hell - paradoxically, it was God who created evil. Good people can be seduced through that line. " The line between good and evil is movable and permeable. The "prisoners" showed signs of emotional trauma ( website here, video - a version of which Zimbardo shows during his speech - here). The experiment early, after only 6 days, because a sizable portion of the "guards" startedĭeveloping abuisive behaviour and sadistic tendencies, while some of Such a rapid adaptation to their roles that Zimbardo had to interrupt (students) played the roles of both guards and prisoners - and showed In a mock prison settingīuilt in the basement of a Stanford University building, volunteers Of human responses to authority and captivity. In 1971, he conducted the Stanford prison experiment, a study The best person to start this session is certainly social psychologist Phil Will evil prevail? This promises to be a hard session - there will be moments that are hard to watch and listen to, looking evil right in the eye - but discussions of evil will mix with experiences of good. ![]() ![]() (Unedited running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California.
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