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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Anyone and everyone can become a perpetrator of evil.
Chapter 3: Our personalities aren’t fixed; they shift with the situation.
Chapter 4: The Stanford prison study turned normal people into vicious sadists.
Chapter 5: Obedience to authority is always tied to acts of evil.
Chapter 6: When we aren’t accountable, we’re easily lured by evil’s temptations.
Chapter 7: We’re more prone to evil if we regard others as less than human.
Chapter 8: Softened language and strong ideology let us excuse our evil deeds.
Chapter 9: You can still stand up to evil and choose moral, heroic action.
Description
In an attempt to reveal the source of humanity’s capacity for evil, The Lucifer Effect (2007) delves deep into the dark corners of the human mind. It shows how we walk a fine line between monstrosity and heroism daily – yet it isn’t our nature that determines on which side of the line we fall, but the numerous situational forces that permeate our lives.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in psychology and understanding human nature
- Anyone who wants to know why good people sometimes turn evil