Why would four young men watch their friend die, when they could have intervened to save him? Why would a woman obey phone commands from a stranger to strip-search an innocent employee? What makes ordinary people perpetrate extraordinary abuses, like the events at Abu Ghraib?
Documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) revisits three famous behavioral studies to explore some perennial questions about why human beings commit unethical acts under particular social conditions.
Reconsidered are:
- Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments, in which subjects willingly inflicted pain on another person
- Philip Zimbardo’s alarming prisoner and guard role-playing study
- Columbia University’s 1969 experiments which illuminated how being in a group can cause a diffusion of moral responsibility.
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joedirtsays...LOLLOLOL... Stupid cunt keeps rationalizing her moron self and pedophile fiance. "You don't know unless you are in the same situation".
LOLOL.. Who sits on the phone waiting for a cop for two hours.
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