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What makes good people do bad things? What leads normal people to behave immorally? Such questions reside in ethics, law and politics, as well as within all people as moral subjects, as actors, as persons affected by decisions and as players in public and private organisations. There are two ways in which human behaviour can be explained. One looks for reasons in the character of the individual perpetrator. This has indeed become the rule in our ever more individualised world in the industrial west. The central questions are, Who is responsible? Who caused it? Who is to blame?
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Zimbardo, P. (2007). The Lucifer effect: Understanding how good people turn evil. New York: Random House.
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Staffelbach, B. (2019). Bruno Staffelbach Recommends “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” by Philip Zimbardo. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_46
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