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November 13, 2012 05:06 pm PST
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Obedience and fear: What makes people hurt other people?
Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" experiments are infamous classics of psychology and social behavior. Back in the 1960s, Milgram set up a series of tests that showed seemingly normal people would be totally willing to torture another human being if prodded into it by an authority figure. The basic set-up is probably familiar to you. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_MqVlVAOm4s/obedience-and-fear-what-makes.html
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