Vinegar barrel

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A vinegar barrel, which "rots all apples", is a social environment which will usually shape anti-social behavior. A poorly supervised prison is often cited as an example. An artificial prison environment was created in the Stanford Prison Experiment which demontrated this situational phenomenon.

External Links

• Chapter, "A Situationalist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil:Understanding How Good People are Transformed into Perpetrators" by Philip G. Zimbardo, The Social Psychology of Good and Evil: Understanding Our Capacity for Kindness and Cruelty

Further Reading

• Jennifer Crocker and Authur G. Miller a.k.a. Arthur G. Miller, Social Psychology of Good and Evil: Understanding Our Capacity for Kindness and Cruelty, Guilford Press, February, 2004, hardcover, ISBN 157230989X