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Hi Professor Navara, Welcome to my final learning journal blog post. I would first like to begin by thanking you for being a fantastic professor throughout this semester. I think you offered a great balance between discussant and critique during our seminars, and you knew when to take a step back and let the restContinue reading “Final Post”

Hi readers! Well, we’ve made it to the last post of the semester! First and foremost, I wanted to thank you for riding with me on this journey of exploring evil. It’s been a pleasure. Our last assigned reading of the course was Chapter 12 of Roy Baumeister’s book, titled “Why is There Evil?” GreatContinue reading “Not as it seems…”

Hi readers. Our class time was taken up mostly by presentations this week. Two of them stood out to me, one that looked at police officers who kill individuals on the job without repercussions, and another that looked at the death penalty. The interesting part about these topics is that they don’t necessarily include theContinue reading “Anti-intention”

Hi everyone! We had a really interesting set of presentations this week by our classmates that covered: the social media spread of evil, cyberbullying and rape and sexual sadism. This was followed by a very involved discussion that talked about everyone’s perceptions of evil thus far in the course. In the class discussion, we spentContinue reading ““No sympathy for whores…””

This week our conversation started with a very interesting presentation by a classmate about corporate evil, which then bled into a conversation about The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (Zimbardo, 2007). In a nutshell, the presentation spoke about how certain leaders of corporations make “evil” decisions which are then followed by the rest of theContinue reading “Morals vs. Compliance”

Hi readers! This week’s blog post is going to focus on readings from the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo, which details the proceedings of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In reading Zimbardo’s account of how the prisoners (who were not actually guilty of anything) and the jail guards took on their roles (Zimbardo, 2007),Continue reading “The Outsiders on the Inside”

Hello everyone! After a very thought-provoking presentation by a classmate, most of our class discussion revolved around eugenics this week. The presentation focused on using psychedelics to remove violent tendencies from a person. Afterwards, different opinions regarding biologically influencing someone to be less evil were thrown around the room. It was compared to things likeContinue reading “Was That Too Far?”

Hi readers! Our class discussion was a little bit short, but it centred around different types of debatable evil. We touched on three topics that really stood out to me, sadism in BDSM, religion and psychological manipulation. All of the aforementioned topics have the potential to become evil. I’ve been spending a lot of timeContinue reading “Shades of Sadism”

Hi again! Welcome back to my psychology of evil blog. In this blog post I will be talking about mental illness, Asperger’s and Autism. I wanted to write a little disclaimer about these things. I am in no way saying that everyone who is Autistic, has Asperger’s or any mental health deficit is going toContinue reading “Criminal Responsibility”