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It is extremely difficult to rate this book because I have a thousand thoughts about it. So I am rating it a 4-star because I DO want people to read it. However if I were ranking Zimbardo as an author alone, I would give it 2 stars.
Despite Zimbardo's abysmal efforts as a writer, this is a fascinating book, which examines many known and unknown studies on "evil." To read this, I recommend skimming the whole section where Z describes the Stanford Prison Experiment. Maybe watch the videos online, i ...more
Despite Zimbardo's abysmal efforts as a writer, this is a fascinating book, which examines many known and unknown studies on "evil." To read this, I recommend skimming the whole section where Z describes the Stanford Prison Experiment. Maybe watch the videos online, i ...more
Zimbardo writes like a social scientist. That is to say, this book contains a lot of interesting information about both his work and related areas of social psychology, but it became a real snozer. More reader-friendly than, say, an academic journal article, but hardly the can't-put-it-down page-turner that I wanted it to be. I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Zimbardo, and the parallels between the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Abu Ghraib are remarkable, but I still had a hard time gut
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