"Drawing on examples from history as well as his own ... research, [the author] details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.... By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, [he] enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the "bad apple" with that of the "bad barrel" - the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around. -Dust jacket."
"Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo explores the roots of human evil, illustrating the powerful effect of situational forces to transform otherwise decent people into monsters."@en
"Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo explores the roots of human evil, illustrating the powerful effect of situational forces to transform otherwise decent people into monsters."