The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo

Author:Philip Zimbardo [Zimbardo, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2011-04-29T14:00:00+00:00

Creating opportunities for the diffusion of responsibility or abdication of responsibility for negative outcomes; others will be responsible, or the actor won’t be held liable. (In Milgram’s experiment, the authority figure said, when questioned by any “teacher,” that he would take responsibility for anything that happened to the “learner.”)

Starting the path toward the ultimate evil act with a small, seemingly insignificant first step, the easy “foot in the door” that swings open subsequent greater compliance pressures, and leads down a slippery slope.21 (In the obedience study, the initial shock was only a mild 15 volts.) This is also the operative principle in turning good kids into drug addicts, with that first little hit or sniff.

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