PSYC 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Vinnytsia
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There are many historical examples of persecutions, pogroms, massacres, genocides, and exterminations involving ordinary people acting with extraordinary brutality. Here, a member of a german paramilitary death squad prepares to shoot a jewish man next to a mass grave in the ukraine. The photograph was found in a soldier"s scrapbook, with a handwritten caption read "the last jew in vinnitsa. Here are photographs of victims of the cambodian genocide taken and preserved by the perpetrators. When asked later what motivated their actions, a common response was that perpetrators were. Stanly milgram designed an experimental procedure specifically designed to study this kind of obedience. Painful but not dangerous. : teacher is seated before a shock generator with 30 switches, switches labeled with increasingly disagreeable verbal labels. Teacher was instructed to give a stronger shock with each mistake the learner made. The learner soon began to make audible grunts when the shock was delivered.
