Creator Discusses Extreme Human Vulnerability to Authority 23May2025
- When college students assigned roles to staff a mock prison began to adopt a frankly evil aggression, was that revealing a basic human flaw?
What caused the genocidal slaughter in Rwanda of nearly a million people in 100 days?
Why were ordinary people taking part in a learning experiment willing to administer painful and dangerous electric shocks?
Where does vulnerability to manipulation by authority figures come from?
Why do people ignore safety rules in deference to an authority figure putting their lives at risk?
Why will most people break the law on an authority figure’s say so?
Why are young children easily inculcated to have prejudices?
How can ordinary people be trained to commit acts of violent destruction and cruelty?
Creator explains what makes people good or bad and how to overcome evil.