The Lucifer Effect: Why Good People Turn Evil
The line between good and evil is not fixed. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, normal students became sadistic guards in days.
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The line between good and evil is not fixed. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, normal students became sadistic guards in days.
Would you deny what your own eyes see if everyone around you disagreed? Solomon Asch's experiments reveal the terrifying power of peer pressure.
We value things more simply because we own them. The pain of giving up a mug is greater than the pleasure of acquiring it.
We think our eyes record everything like a camera. But we are blind to what we don't pay attention to. The shocking psychology of noticing.
We are wired for instant gratification. We value the present disproportionately more than the future, leading to bad long-term decisions.
We estimate the probability of an event based on how easily we can recall similar examples. Plane crashes are rare but memorable, so we fear them more than cars.