Philip Zimbardo The Lucifer Effect

Named after the cosmic transformation of God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan, challenging God’s authority in doing so and, according to Zimbardo, it is this metaphor which has inspired him to focus his research on. Similar to it, but on a much smaller scale, The Lucifer Effect is a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts. Written in light of the Stanford Prison Experiment, the concept was created by the leader of this experiment himself, Philip Zimbardo, and raises the fundamental question of when in time a normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character