TED talks: Philip ZImbardo on evil in the world

I discovered the TED site about a year ago, but only recently began digging into it. It features incredible lectures by a wide variety of intellectual, brilliant people. This one caught me. Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist perhaps best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment. He was recently an expert witness in the trial of a guard at Abu Ghraib prison.

Here, Zimbardo talks about his book, The Lucifer Effect and attempts to explain how evil, and heroism, are choices we make that are influenced by our surroundings.


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