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Papers
- The Science of Evil (ABC News)
"Most of us have struggled to understand how seemingly ordinary people can sometimes do morally questionable things."
"In 1961, social psychologist Stanley Milgram asked those same questions. That was the year Nazi Adolf Eichmann, on trial for his war crimes, denied responsibility for his actions by saying he was simply doing what his superiors told him to do."
" 'Primetime' wanted to know if ordinary people today would still follow orders, even if they believed their actions were causing someone else pain. Would as many follow the seemingly dangerous and painful orders as in the original experiment?" 01-07
- The Science of Evil (CNN News)
"If someone told you to press a button to deliver a 450-volt electrical shock to an innocent person in the next room, would you do it?" 12-08
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