If you haven’t read Phil Zimbardo’s book, drop everything and read it now. It is a very important book. The first part of the book covers the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). Most psychology majors ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2268: The Lucifer Effect Episode: 2268 The Lucifer Effect: From Stanford University to Abu Ghraib. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, looks ...

The film centers around 8 people, from all walks of life, who thought they had bought a 'movie role' in a horror film, only to be locked inside the haunted mental asylum to test "The Lucifer Effect" ...

While most people are good most of the time, powerful situational forces – anonymity, group pressures, or diffusion of personal responsibility – can easily lead them blindly to obey authority and to ...