American social psychologist best known for conducting the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment and for his later work on the situational and systemic causes of harmful behavior.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionArgued through the Stanford Prison Experiment and later research that situational and systemic forces can lead ordinary people toward abusive behavior, an idea he later called the psychology of evil; the study itself has since become a textbook example of both a famous finding and a contested one. 1 Notable WorkThe Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (2007) 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Philip Zimbardo
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situations can have a more powerful influence over our behaviour than most people appreciate
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The Lucifer Effect section
Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways
Wikipedia: Stanford prison experiment
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