Why do good, ordinary people sometimes become perpetrators of evil? The most extreme transformation of this kind is, of course, the story of God’s favorite angel, Lucifer – a story that has set the context for my psychological investigations into lesser human transformations in response to the corrosive influence of powerful situational forces.
为什么善良的普通人有时会变成作恶者？这种转变的最极端例子当然就是上帝做宠爱的天使路西法的故事。这个故事正是我对在强大的情境力量所造成的侵蚀性的影响下使人们向坏的方面发生的一些转变所进行的心理研究的背景所在。