In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psycholog
ist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinit
ely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our
conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how
and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers. At the
same time he describes the safeguards we can put in place to prevent ourselves
from corrupting - or being corrupted by - others, and what sets some people apar
t as heroes and heroines, able to resist powerful pressures to go along with the
group, and to refuse to be team players when personal integrity is at stake.
