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Questioning the banality of evil
There has been an almost widespread consensus amongst social psychologists that tyranny triumphs either because ordinary people blindly follow orders or else because they mindlessly conform to powerful roles. Much of this consensus has been influenced by the work of Milgram and Zimbardo
However, more recently, British psychologists S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher have [...]