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The Lucifer Effect

Philip G. Zimbardo · 2007

A social psychology study arguing that situational pressures and institutional authority can induce ordinary people to commit evil acts.

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Psychology & DecisionsSociety & Culture

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“And it was a really fun interview. Like it was the fact that he, I was interviewing Philip Zimbardo being barely out of grad school. You were cuntstruck. A little cuntstruck. And also, you know, like, you know, he was very hard on himself in that interview because that was when,…”

Tamler Sommers, Host on Very Bad WizardsEpisode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)

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