213. What Is Evil?

What makes normal people do terrible things? Are there really bad apples — or just bad barrels? And how should you deal with a nefarious next-door neighbor?

SOURCES:Jonathan Haidt • , professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Christina Maslach • , professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Stanley Milgram • , 20th century professor of psychology at Yale University. Edward R. Murrow • , 20th century American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. Alexander Pope • , 17-18th century English poet. Adrian Raine • , professor of criminology, psychiatry, and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Oskar Schindler • , 20th century German businessman. Philip Zimbardo • , professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University.

RESOURCES: • " Mental Illness and Violence: Debunking Myths, Addressing Realities • ," by Tori DeAngelis ( Monitor on Psychology, • 2021). • " Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment • ," by Thibault Le Texier ( American Psychologist, • 2019). • " How 'Evil' Became a Conservative Buzzword • ," by Emma Green ( The Atlantic, • 2017). • " The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges' Sentencing of Psychopaths? • " by Lisa G. Aspinwall, Teneille R. Brown, and James Tabery ( Science, • 2012). • " The Psychology of Evil • ," by Philip Zimbardo ( TED Talk, • 2008). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, • by Philip Zimbardo (2007). • " When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize • ," by Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham ( Social Justice Research, • 2007). • " Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Speaks Out • ," by Michele Norris ( All Things Considered, • 2006). Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, • by Stanley Milgram (1974).

EXTRAS: • " Does Free Will Exist, and Does It Matter? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " Are You Suffering From Burnout? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2023). Lolita, • by Vladimir Nabokov (1955). • " Essay on Man, Epistle II • ," poem by Alexander Pope (1733).