http://www.nature.com/news/modern-milgram-experiment-sheds-light-on-power-of-authority-1.19408
A neuroscientist has repeated a version of Stanley Milgram`s classic obedience experiment, and took EEGs of the
volunteers while they obeyed orders to inflict real electric shocks on people. The EEGs showed that their brains
were quieter when obeying orders (whether to press a key to give shocks or a key that did nothing), than when they
chose what to press themselves.
The point is that volunteers actually feel less responsibility for their actions when they are obeying an order. Some
said they really "felt" less responsible.
These volunteers were normal people. So I suppose we cannot say that all perps are abnormal or psychopathic.
Unless we argue that it`s abnormal to volunteer to give electric shocks in the first place.
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