Philip Zambardo: A Critical Response To The Lucifer Effect
Ashley Barney
Critical Response #1
BHS-1382
Robert J, Wafula
January 26, 2012
A Critical Response to the Lucifer Effect
Philip Zambardo tries to establish in his writing how someone of good morals can exhibit harsh actions, what it takes for them to do such an unspeakable act, and the evidence of ungodly actions in recent history. The Lucifer Effect is organized in Mini Chapters to structure Zambardo’s writing. In the beginning of the essay, Zambardo states the Lucifer Effect is his way to understand what happens in the time a good person does an evil act. Zambardo would like to know what happens in this transformation of a regular civilian to turn dark and dangerous. He calls the transformation the Lucifer Effect. This transformation is not what sounds like; it does not take a religious aspect but a psychological one. It is the Zambardo gives many examples, including the Abu Ghraib Prison. This …show more content…
I looked this up online to get a better understanding of this experiment. It really reminded me of the book “Lord Of the Flies”. I say this because it starts with normal innocent kids, or adults in this case, and ends in tragedy. Although, the Stanford Prison experiment just came to a halt, because they created a situation to that was a big for them to handle It was still compelling. I read the whole report on the situation by Dr. Zambardo himself, and I really believe influences by other make a big part of the psychological part of the individuals mind. In this experiment prisoners and guards adapted and fell into their roles of the prison system. Some of the Guards became ruthless and like to humiliate the prisoners, some prisoners forgot they were not really prisoners and obeyed every rule, and Zambardo himself fell into the role of the superintendent and forgot what the experiment was about. I think the surrounding of the environment and the characters of people around a person has a part in the effects of ones
Critical Response #1
BHS-1382
Robert J, Wafula
January 26, 2012
A Critical Response to the Lucifer Effect
Philip Zambardo tries to establish in his writing how someone of good morals can exhibit harsh actions, what it takes for them to do such an unspeakable act, and the evidence of ungodly actions in recent history. The Lucifer Effect is organized in Mini Chapters to structure Zambardo’s writing. In the beginning of the essay, Zambardo states the Lucifer Effect is his way to understand what happens in the time a good person does an evil act. Zambardo would like to know what happens in this transformation of a regular civilian to turn dark and dangerous. He calls the transformation the Lucifer Effect. This transformation is not what sounds like; it does not take a religious aspect but a psychological one. It is the Zambardo gives many examples, including the Abu Ghraib Prison. This …show more content…
I looked this up online to get a better understanding of this experiment. It really reminded me of the book “Lord Of the Flies”. I say this because it starts with normal innocent kids, or adults in this case, and ends in tragedy. Although, the Stanford Prison experiment just came to a halt, because they created a situation to that was a big for them to handle It was still compelling. I read the whole report on the situation by Dr. Zambardo himself, and I really believe influences by other make a big part of the psychological part of the individuals mind. In this experiment prisoners and guards adapted and fell into their roles of the prison system. Some of the Guards became ruthless and like to humiliate the prisoners, some prisoners forgot they were not really prisoners and obeyed every rule, and Zambardo himself fell into the role of the superintendent and forgot what the experiment was about. I think the surrounding of the environment and the characters of people around a person has a part in the effects of ones