Phillip Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect

In the Stanford prison experiment, Zimbardo analyzes how human behavior can change based one’s surroundings and what they are told to do. Normal college students are given roles to play in a mock prison. In this experiment, people are assigned jobs as prison guards and prisoners. The prison guards quickly adapted to their roles. They saw no problem treating the prisoners with no respect. These students use violence against the other students to show their leadership and dominance. The prisoners quickly got accustomed to their parts as well.The prisoners believed that they deserved the punishment. “The experiment shows that good people under the wrong circumstances can behave just like those that we vilify” (Zimbardo). With this experiment, Zimbardo studies the Lucifer Effect. The Lucifer Effect is understanding how good people become evil. He uses his data from this experiment to further develop the Lucifer Effect theory and find out why the Nazis treated the Jews with such cruelty. His results show that when given the opportunity and in the right environment, humans will dehumanize other

Any man can withstand adversity; if you want to test his character, give him power.

The most infamous of these is the affect playing roles has on us; this is called the Lucifer effect. This occurs when one is placed into a role such as Phillip Zimbardo’s famous prison guard experiment, and the role that is in authority over the other begins to abuse their power. (Myers 2014, p. 461) Another great example of this is in the movie Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick) Hartman is given a role over the cadets. His brutality perfectly demonstrates the Lucifer effect, as he verbally and physically abused the cadets. Hartman constantly called the cadets killers, and Private Pyle took heart to that. He showed information social influence; when a person accepts others’ reality as their own. (Myers 2014, p. 467) Private Pyle was conceived that he was to become a killer, and eventually he became just that. (Kubrick) The rest of the cadets were also affected by this.

The Lucifer Effect makes an effort to perceive the significance of how good people turn bad. The book views the lives of people who are put into difficult situations. It seeks to identify the fundamental problem the person has. The fundamental problem that seems to raise question is the distinctiveness of character transformations when put into certain situations. There are examples about character transformation all throughout the book. In the first chapter, The Rape of Rwanda shows a perfect example. It’s shocking to read how the influence of one person changed the two villages. The beliefs of that one person altered the minds of thousands. Men and women’s thoughts were changed into thinking it was ok to kill. It’s disturbing to know how

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said, “The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” Every indivdual has the decision between good and evil. Not every person will choose the right side of the line. When an indivdual crosses over the line to the evil side this is known as The Lucifer Effect. Philip Zimbardo, the individual that coined the idea, presented the ideas behind why people change and turn evil even if though their whole life they were not known as an evil person. According to Zimbardo, people turn evil for one of two reasons; The Lucifer Effect and the seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil (TED Talks).

Finally, one pictures the 'great' devil, Satan as an atrocious influencer of man and as a cunning mastermind. However this is the greatest difference between Paradise Lost and Inferno. In Paradise Lost the devil is able to leave his dominion of hell and eventually influence man's relationship with God. This demonstrates Lucifer's intelligence and defiance of God. This can be very clearly seen in the book of Job, where God and Lucifer are communicating and making a bid of sorts. This is very different from Dante's Lucifer whom is portrayed as an animalistic and basic intellect, as he is “unable to speak.” (Corsetti 1) This is drawn from the act of chewing, which in itself is very animalistic which leads to a degraded mental copasitly. This almost: “dehumanises Satan and empathises the issues of the different 'levels' (intellectual, animalistic and vegetative) of the soul.” (Corsetti

Hard Measures explores the interrogation techniques of the Central Intelligence Agency. The techniques used could be viewed as harass actions. The situation that the interrogators were in was a differential one how every were all the decisions made ethical decisions. The purpose of the Stanford Prison Experiment was to learn about the psychological consequences of segregation on inmates. There was a group of college students chosen to participate. Some of the participates would be prisoners for two weeks 24 hours a day and the other participates would play the position of prison guards who would work in shifts. Thought the experiment was unethical we do lean about the situations that could make people do things they wouldn’t normally do as in torturing prisoners.

Satan goes from the most beautiful to the ugliest because of his defiance. John Carrey speaks of Milton’s Satan saying “Satan as archangel, before his fall, is never shown by Milton, but this stage of his existence is often alluded to, as is the fact that some of his archangelic power powers remain, though we cannot be quite sure which. Hence Satan, as a fictional character, gains a hidden dimension and a ‘past’” (133). We know Satan has a past, it is just not presented by Milton. Satan once lived in a universe full of happiness, joy, and eternal glorification and was known in

The following report takes into account the selection of two integral companies with global operations, Wal-Mart and Sainsbury. These two companies are critically assessed in link to their individual brand positioning strategies. Some strategies overlap each other whereas some are different, so both are discussed in context. The brand positioning strategy has taken into account the individual companies’ marketing objectives, sales pitches, expansive strategies and service competition that are provided nationally and internationally. Wal-Mart has its extensive operations, hence has a more generic service oriented approach where products are sold and retailed in an intelligent global manner. In this context, its international website layout, online presence and promotional campaigns are discussed that hopes to target mass social target audience. On the other hand, Sainsbury deals in the same business of retail and online shopping, but since its operations are more suited and favorable in the United Kingdom, that is why its operations are limited compared to Wal-Mart. Sainsbury deals with niche market segment, which is limited by some geographic and demographic segmentation. Sainsbury’s promotional and marketing campaigns are also less generic, and keep intact its present social and cultural context. Both companies are suggested for service development, market penetration and market developments. Since both companies are rates exceptionally agile, they still compete on the

Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is a complex character meant to be the evil figure in the epic poem. Whenever possible Satan attempts to undermine God and the Son of God who is the true hero of the story. Throughout the story Milton tells the readers that Satan is an evil character, he is meant not to have any redeeming qualities, and to be shown completely as an unsympathetic figure. Satan’s greatest sins are pride and vanity in thinking he can overthrow God, and in the early part of the poem he is portrayed as selfish while in Heaven where all of God’s angels are loved and happy. Satan’s journey starts out as a fallen angel with great stature, has the ability to reason and argue, but by Book X the anguish and pain he goes through is

Sometimes we wonder why people do things. Is it because they were forced to? Maybe they were pressured into it, or maybe they thought it was the right thing to do. In the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo he studies the psychological motives of humans and situational personalities. Zimbardo produced an experiment called the “Stanford prison experiment” which put one group of students as guards and another as the prisoners. The main point of the experiment was to watch the prisoners and see how they reacted to being detained; however, when the experiment was conducted it was the guards who were more interesting to study.

Another strength is that I bringing in ideals of activities for the class. This is a strength because sometimes a teacher might run out of ideas on how to get the children engaged in an activity. This is also helpful because you can incorporate the children’s interest to the activities planned. A few example of this are, every month the theme of what the children will learn about changes. I was asked to think of some activities for the students to do. During the morning centers, the children have to go to the three tables, Art, Math/Science and ABC table. A few of the children do not enjoy writing so I thought of some activities that might spark their interest. Once activity was bringing in foam ABC sticker letters. The children found the

Satan encourages his followers and reminds them of their original cause. He shows great leadership skills by re-emphasizing their ideas that at least when they are reigning in Hell, G-d doesn't interfere, and although it is Hell it is still worth ruling rather than serving in Heaven. Satan is dwelling on his power which could be seen as his tragic flaw. He is allowing his pride and ego to surface by glorifying Hell (calling it "profoundest") and declaring himself in possession of Hell. He starts to think of the idea of Heaven and Hell as a mindset. He starts to believe that the mind is what creates a place as Heaven and a place as Hell. Satan feels as though Heaven is Hell because he must serve G-d there, but in Hell, he has a true Heaven because he is served and worshipped. This could be determined as his tragic flaw.

Tom Ellis may be the star of the FOX series Lucifer, but he still has some trouble getting the spotlight from costar D.B. Woodside, who plays the temperamental angel Amenadiel. Woodside recently opened up about his Lucifer character and expressed an interest in appearing in the DC flick Green Lantern Corps!

Should religion be taught in public schools? It’s a common question that has been argued over by philosophers, scholars, and opinionated internet users alike. The Supreme Court has even given a ruling on the topic, saying students have the right to practice their religion at any time but schools cannot hold any religious activities (Joint Statement of Current Law on Religion in the Public Schools). Still, though, a debate remains. Some say that schools should enforce prayer upon students, while others believe that the church should stay out of education. However, in this paper I would like to bring to light a popular alternative to these suggestions that bridges the ideas while correcting some issues with both sides.