![]() ![]() Religion, medicine, psychiatry, law, economics all are promoting individualistic orientations and the Medical Model of treatment, after the fact, of sickness. Even more difficult to get the general public to accept is the power of systems to create, maintain and justify those situations that so significantly influence individual and group action.Īll of our institutions also adopt the individual model of responsibility, guilt, liability, sin, affliction, madness, etc. Most of us play roles so often and so long that we forget it is a role as it becomes who and what we are. We ignore the fact that every person is embedded in a social setting of co-actors, with varying costumes and props, and stage managers, and learned scripts. We are excessively focused on the Person, as solitary actor on an empty stage delivering his or her soliloquy improvised from a free will core. It is only slowing being accepted because the dominant view in individualistic cultures, like ours in the United States, is entirely dispositional. ![]() In what ways have you seen the Person-Situation-System understanding described in the book begin to take hold and tangibly change peoples’ thinking? Your book, The Lucifer Effect, has become one of the core texts of the “situationist” school of thought, which has been gaining momentum of late. Zimbardo was kind enough to make some time to discuss the book and his ongoing initiatives. Zimbardo takes the reader through this often dark journey, and in the process sheds light on topics ranging from corporate malfeasance to torture at Abu Ghraib to organized genocide. Zimbardo created the classic Stanford Prison Experiment, a simulation of prison life that investigated a provocative question: what happens when you put good people in an evil place? The results were dramatic, and launched a decades-long journey to discover how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women. ![]() Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has been studying the anatomy of human psychology for nearly four decades. ![]()
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