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The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
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Psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how ordinary people can be pushed into doing evil by situations and systems. He draws on the Stanford prison experiment and unseen Abu Ghraib photos, then turns to the opposite case: how ordinary people can become heroes.
HN uses it to argue that systems rather than bad apples drive cruelty, and for its section on how anonymity changes behavior.
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