Zimbardo o Abu Graibu

| 28. februar 2008 | Svet | Jure

Slavni psiholog o mučenju v Abu Graibu. Video in nekaj še neobjavljenih fotografij.

Situations can be sufficiently powerful to undercut empathy, altruism, morality and to get ordinary people, even good people, to be seduced into doing really bad things — but only in that situation.

Understanding the reason for someone’s behavior is not the same as excusing it. Understanding why somebody did something — where that why has to do with situational influences — leads to a totally different way of dealing with evil. It leads to developing prevention strategies to change those evil-generating situations, rather than the current strategy, which is to change the person.

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib