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  • Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes | Video on TED.com

    Evil is the exercise of power to harm people; heroism is the ability to act when others are passive. It is not necessarily an individual who is evil, that is just one element in the chain. How a person reacts or behaves is a combination of 3 elements; an individual's Disposition, the... more

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  • Reviewed by UTurnLizzie on Oct 23, 4:43am

    I learned about this in Uni - its fascinating

  • Rated by barryr666 on Oct 05, 12:00pm

    Evil is the exercise of power to harm people; heroism is the ability to act when others are passive. It is not necessarily an individual who is evil, that is just one element in the chain. How a person reacts or behaves is a combination of 3 elements; an individual's Disposition, the Situation or circumstances and finally the overall System that they are governed by. These 3 combined elements are known as the Lucifer Effect and, depending on their relative strengths or weaknesses, can cause a person to flip either way; to become hero or villain. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Examples are provided in the video; Abu Ghraib (not for the squeamish), failure to learn punished by increasing the power of electric shocks and a guard/prisoner psychology experiment that went horribly wrong. An excellent and graphic example of these principles and the hero/villain flip/flop is the film Crash where, as circumstances change, heroes become villains and vice versa.

  • Rated by jwb1979 on May 16 2009, 12:32am

    Stanford professor Phillip Zimbardo talks about how people can turn 'evil' and how the mechanisms involved in the Stanford prison experiment apply to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.

  • Rated by BiosyntheticLife on May 15 2009, 10:04am

    From the page: "Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes"

  • Rated by Tyrhaynes on May 14 2009, 11:49pm

    Truly excellent performance for TED. A little too much christianity but I've chosen to overlook it:)

  • Rated by Orotim on Mar 29 2009, 6:36pm

    You the man Zimbardo born with a porn name!

  • Rated by stevedtrm on Feb 18 2009, 7:32am

    The complicit inaction this guy is talking about is our day to day submission to economic power through wage slavery you know as employment. Employment produces all of the tools of tyranny which are turning a planet of plenty into a prison planet. Giving that up is the first step on the path to heroism.

  • Rated by brechindave on Feb 16 2009, 3:59pm

    The army actually encourages all the bad aspects he talks about - because it wants people to commit atrocities, all war is an atrocity. The western system is designed to make passive, dependent, ball-less sheep. I blame the education system and lets remember western education is modelled on Prussia's (Germany's) example. A holocaust could easily happen in any western nation, you don't need a study to know that, just walk down the high street.