The “Lucifer effect”: what the controversial prison experiment of Stanford demonstrates
The controversial Stanford prison experiment conducted by the US psychologist Philip Zimbardo of the University of Stanfordmade in 1971had a disruptive impact in the field of social psychology describing a complex social phenomenon – sometimes called “Lucifer effect” – according to which normal people (let’s say “good”) can come to implement sadistic and violent behaviors starting fromenvironment in which they ...
