Have you ever known someone who was a very nice person, and as soon as they got some sort of power or authority, they became a terrible version of themselves? For example, your old colleague whom you ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2268: The Lucifer Effect Episode: 2268 The Lucifer Effect: From Stanford University to Abu Ghraib. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, looks ...

The ego defence of dehumanization involves seeing other people as less or other than human so as not to have to think about them so much and/or feel guilty for neglecting or abusing them. One simple ...

While most people are good most of the time, powerful situational forces – anonymity, group pressures, or diffusion of personal responsibility – can easily lead them blindly to obey authority and to ...

The film centers around 8 people, from all walks of life, who thought they had bought a 'movie role' in a horror film, only to be locked inside the haunted mental asylum to test "The Lucifer Effect" ...