Why Obeying Orders Can Make Us Do Terrible Things
War atrocities are sometimes committed by ‘normal’ people because they obeyed orders. Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam measured brain activity while participants inflict pain, and found that obeying orders reduced empathy- and guilt-related brain activity for the inflicted pain. This may explain why people more readily commit immoral acts under coercion.
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