Voices
DR. PHILIP
ZIMBARDO
HUFFINGTON
03.17.13
PSYCHOLOGY
COURTESY OF TED
Evil Doers, It’s Not
(All) Your Fault
EVIL: HOW AND why do good
people turn evil? VS. Good: How
can ordinary people be inspired
to act heroically?
These two questions have been
challenging me since I was a kid,
and finally after many decades,
I have discovered answers that I
need to share with everyone who
might care about these fundamental issues about Human Nature.
Growing up in poverty in the inner city of the South Bronx, New
York City, means that I, like all
such kids similarly situated everywhere in the world, was surrounded by evil. There were and are
Dr. Zimbardo
speaking
at the
2013 TED