*WARNING*- This video contains explicit images
To watch the complete presentation please see the Lucifer Effect on the PLMS website:
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943& ;pageid=icb.page205767
(Run TIme Approx. 100 min.)
Professor Zimbardo's talk takes 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 of the "bad barrel" and the "bad barrel makers".
PLMS
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943& ;pageid=icb.page63708
The Situationist Blog
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/
The Lucifer Effect
http://www.lucifereffect.com/index.html