A Clocky Clock
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Science 26 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5701, pp. 1482 - 1483
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103788
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Policy Forum
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:
Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners
Susan T. Fiske, Lasana T. Harris, Amy J. C. Cuddy*
As official investigations and courts-martial continue, we are all taking stock of the events at Abu Ghraib last year. Initial reactions were shock and disgust. How could Americans be doing this to anyone, even Iraqi prisoners of war? Some observers immediately blamed "the few bad apples" presumably responsible for the abuse. However, many social psychologists knew that it was not that simple. Society holds individuals responsible for their actions, as the military court-martial recognizes, but social psychology suggests we should also hold responsible peers and superiors who control the social context.
Social psychological evidence......
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