OpEdNews - Diary: Zimbardo to speak in Cambridge MA on Lucifer Effect

Renowned scholar, writer, and speaker Dr. Phil Zimbardo, will speak about his new book, the Lucifer Effect, at MIT on April 2, 2007 and at Harvard Law School on April 3. Professor Zimbardo's talk will take its audience on a journey through the psychological processes of character transformation that are engaged when ordinary, good people turn into perpetrators of evil. The abuses and tortures of Abu Ghraib prison serve as the case study for understanding such horrors not as the work of a "few bad apples," but rather as the consequence of a set of identifiable Situational variables and Systemic forces - "the bad barrel" and "the bad barrel makers."

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I posted on his recent talk at Stanford on these issues here. MIT Business School Wong Auditorium, Building E51 Monday, April 2nd, 2007from 4:00 to 6:00 Further information here. Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School 1563 Massachusetts Ave. Tuesday, April 3rd, from 4:45 - 6:30 (followed by cheese, wine, and book-signing reception, until 7:00) Further information here. Dr. Zimbardo has created a web site dealing with the issues raised in his new book: www.lucifereffect.com. (followed by cheese, wine, and book-signing reception, until 7:00) Further information here. Dr. Zimbardo has created a web site dealing with the issues raised in his new book: