Alex Haslam
Voices on Antisemitism
English - May 02, 2013 16:00 - 6 minutes - 7.39 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSociety & Culture antisemitism holocaust ushmm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Since the Holocaust, social psychologists have asked: Why do people succumb to evil? Theories point to peer pressure and the power of conformity. But Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher reject the idea that people become automatons in a group. Their mock-prison study reveals something more complex about the ways individuals sign on to a brutal agenda.