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People May Be Motivated To Carry Out Unspeakable Acts By Social Identification Rather Than Obedience
July 21, 2012 by NewsBot
What makes soldiers abuse prisoners? How could Nazi officials condemn thousands of Jews to gas chamber deaths? What's going on when underlings help cover up a financial swindle? For years, researchers have tried to identify the factors that drive people to commit cruel and brutal acts and perhaps no one has contributed more to this knowledge than psychological scientist Stanley Milgram...