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Determining Decisive Contexts for Evil Behavior: an annotation of Dr. Chiba Atsuko’s experiment logs

By ghostlightning on 4 February 2009 | Anime, Art and Culture | 17 Comments

As an anime blogger I’m very much intrigued by the concept of evil. I’ve gone far and wide, to look into ethical considerations and such – but I never seem satisfied by what I find. Perhaps I really am less interested to understand, but to justify. I’m on the fence regarding whether humans are intrinsically good or evil to begin with.

Then I find more of Dr. Chiba Atsuko’s good stuff. Using similar techniques as developed and used by the noted Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, Dr. Chiba explores how evil behavior may be less a dispositional consequence, but rather a situational one.

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