The Lucifer Effect:(by book's seller)

The content is great, however the manner in which it is written is disinteresting to read through.

I definitely agree wholeheartedly with the content in the book but difficult to keep my attention. Heres a quoteThe psychologist Ervin Staub (who as a child survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary in a “protected house”) concurs that most people under particular circumstances have a capacity for extreme violence and destruction of human life. From his attempt to understand the roots of evil in genocide and mass violence around the world, Staub has come to believe that “Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception . . . . Great evil arises out of ordinary psychological processes that evolve, usually with a progression along the continuum of destruction.” He highlights the significance of ordinary people being caught up in situations where they can learn to practice evil acts that are demanded by higher-level authority systems: “Being part of a system shapes views, rewards adherence to dominant views, and makes deviation psychologically demanding and difficult.”

Poorly written and painfully boring. A perfect example of everything wrong with American academia sloppily collected in one place.