The Lucifer Effect: Understanding
How Good People Turn Evil
ShareIn conversation with Jack Miles, scholar in residence, Getty Research Institute, and senior fellow for religious affairs, Pacific Council on International Policy
From the creator of the landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, a revelatory exploration of the human capacity for evil - and what we can do about it. Zimbardo, Stanford professor emeritus of psychology, was an expert witness in the Abu Ghraib court-martial hearings.
Philip G. Zimbardo is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, researcher and media personality, winning numerous awards and honors in each of these domains. He has been a Stanford University professor since 1968, having taught previously at Yale, NYU and Columbia. Zimbardo's career is noted for giving psychology away to the public through his popular PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, along with many text and trade books, among his 300 publications. He was recently president of the American Psychological Association.
Jack Miles is Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy and Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine. A MacArthur Fellow (2003-2007), Miles won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for God: A Biography, which has since been translated into sixteen languages. A former member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, he is currently general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions.
