My recent book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil describes the radical transformations that took place among college students playing randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison created at Stanford University. It goes on to establish direct parallels with the abuses committed by American soldiers at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, presenting much of the social science research illustrating the power of social situations to dominate individual dispositions.
我最近写的一本书，《路西法效应：理解好人怎样变成坏人》，描述了我们在斯坦福大学设立了一个模拟监狱，然后随机地让大学生扮演囚犯和守卫，从而在他们身上发生的一些根本的转变。这与美国士兵在伊拉克阿布格莱德监狱发生的虐囚行为如出一辙，表明社会学研究描述社会环境主宰了个体性格的说法很大程度上是正确的。