Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Why We Torture: Martha Nussbaum on Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect"

Philip Zimbardo is the psychologist who carried out the Stanford Prison Experiment [SPE] in 1971. He has published a book about the lessons to be learned from that experiment and others. The book is “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil.”

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