Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners

By Susan T. Fiske, Lasana T. Harris, Amy J. C. Cuddy. Science, 2004

109 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c11cee4a9ad094fe61b412e0e423a02cefbc8481

Citations in the corpus

• At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (2009, unknown): “…choice.6 By contrast, the soldiers in Abu Ghraib who tortured prisoners chose their actions for reasons that most people do not find acceptable (e.g., orders form higher up), and no situationist defense (e.g., Fiske, Harris, and Cuddy, 2004; Zimbardo, 2007) appears to convince people otherwise.”
• Analyzing collective action (2010, unknown): “On the other hand, individuals may callously ignore or viciously harm others depending on the setting in which they find themselves (see Fiske et al., 2004).”
• Psychological Pathways to Fraud: Understanding and Preventing Fraud in Organizations (2011, unknown): “More recently, Zimbardo (2007) and others (Fiske et al., 2004) highlight the role of social contexts and incrementalism in leading to unethical conduct.”