How ordinary people become monsters... or heroes

Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
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I spent some time with Phil on the day that the Abu Ghraib scandal broke nationally. He was shocked, as all of us were, but not surprised and was amazed about how pertinent the research he had done almost 30 years previously had become with regards to what was happening on a global scale. It was an inspiration to chat with him that night and brought home the real value of hard-hitting psychological research, like the study that he's doing now.

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