On Monday night [2/11/2008] Stephen Colbert interviewed Dr. Zimbardo. They talked about Zimbardo's book "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good People Turn Evil". The book is based on the results of an experiment conducted in 1971. You can watch the interview here:

I originally posted this commentary on 2007-12-31 13:09:47 and since then, there seems to be a theme of greed running thru the site ...

Jamess brought us Maybe "Greed is not Good" and Nick Benton's Corner posted by Carol White As the Era of Greed Ends ...