The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

elow are a list of illustrations included in The Lucifer Effect. These images may be used for non-commercial purposes, with credit line to LuciferEffect.org and link to http://www.LuciferEffect.org/ when images are posted on the web. Any commercial use requires a written request and permission from my office.

1. M. C. Escher’s illusion of angels and devils

2. Police arresting student prisoner

3. Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) guard in uniform

4. SPE prisoners lined up for their frequent counts

5. SPE grievance committee meets with Superintendent Zimbardo

6. SPE’s Yard in action

7. SPE prisoner suffers an emotional breakdown

8. SPE hooded, chained prisoners await hearings with the Parole Board

9. SPE naked prisoner in his cell #3

10. SPE chart comparing behaviors of guards and prisoners (from video records)

11. Ad soliciting New Haven adults for Milgram’s study of obedience (courtesy Alexandra Milgram and Erlbaum Press)

12. “Learner” is attached to shock apparatus in obedience experiment

13. “Teacher” shocks “learner” complying with authority pressure

14. Abu Ghraib Prison: Prisoner pyramid with smiling MP guards

15. Abu Ghraib Prison: MP dragging prisoner on ground with a dog leash

16. Staff Sergeant Chip Frederick proudly holding American flag in Iraq

17. Abu Ghraib prisoners forced to simulate sodomy and to masturbate

18. Unmuzzled Belgian Shepherd Army dogs terrifying naked prisoner

19. Abu Ghraib MP in prison cell with face painted in style of a rock group

20. Chip Frederick with “Hooded Man,” the iconic image of torture

21. Chip Frederick sitting on top of prisoner “Shit Boy”

22. Abu Ghraib MP posing with murdered “Ghost detainee” on Tier 1A

23. Heroic Chinese student, “Tank Man,” facing down Army tanks

24. M. C. Escher’s illusion of angels and devils—revisited


		Faces of the Enemy What does it take for the citizens of one society to hate the citizens of another society to the degree that they want to segregate them, torment them, even to kill them? It requires a ‘hostile imagination,’ a psychological construction embedded deeply in their minds by propaganda that transforms those others into “The Enemy.”