Lucifer effect, 6th edition. Zimbardo F.

What encourages good people to do evil? Based on historical examples and his own research, the author of the famous Stanford prison experiment shows how situational processes and group interactions of people are combined into one terrible force capable of turning decent men and women into monsters. Claring the reasons causing these dangerous metamorphoses, and offering methods of confrontation, Zimbardo draws a phenomenon in all his diversity, starting from official crimes, cruel treatment and torture in the Abu Graib prison and ending with an organized genocide. This provocative book ruthlessly exposes the nature of human behavior and makes us think about what we are actually capable of - each separately both with others and in a new look at ourselves.