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    Indianapolis Colts * Except openness to differing opinions * Finding holes in all arguments that go against the group’s desires * The 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion was the result of groupthink. * Cults are to _______________ as Abu Ghraib is to _______________. C) groupthink; deindividuation * and is effective at immunizing people from undesirable beliefs. B) inoculation effect: is the treatment in which people are first introduced to the reasons why a belief seems to

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    Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain

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    The mythos of America had started long before the era of modern militarism; however‚ it had boomed in popularity during said era due to John Wayne. It was soon known to be the John Wayne mythos. Said mythos became of the talk of the nation‚ filling up novels and films‚ and used as propaganda for the war. It is built on heroism‚ the idea that America is the impeccable saviour of the world—that they are always right‚ no matter what the situation is. Despite how bright this mythos seems‚ it has some

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    popular media renditions. Its web site has gotten over 15 million unique page views in the past four years‚ and more than a million a week in the weeks following the expose of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American Military Police army reservists in Abu Ghraib Prison”. Zimbardo’s research has come to be known as one of the classical example of how circumstantial power has the ability to influence individuals in multiple domains. This experiment is historically one of the prime examples of how even

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    Conner Wilson 10-23-2012 Composition I The Deindividuation of Society Since the beginning of time‚ mankind has advanced as a society of many; each person and individual a piece in the great machine that is time. This unity‚ this joining of forces‚ has driven mankind forward throughout the dark ages of humanity’s past and into the modern world people live in today. Much has changed with the passing of time‚ but what has not changed is humanity’s primal instinct to create allies and forge relationships

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    From late 2003 to early 2004‚ during the Iraq War‚ military police personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency[1] committed human rights violations against prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison. They physically and sexually abused‚ tortured‚[2][3][4] raped‚[2][3] sodomized‚[4] and killed[5] prisoners. It came to public attention in early 2004‚ beginning with United States Department of Defense announcements. As revealed in the Taguba Report (2004)‚ an initial criminal

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    Irfanali Karim Professor Brandon ENC 1102 April 14‚ 2008 Fahrenheit 451 in Today’s World In the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ the author creates a picture of a society that resembles our present-day society in a variety of ways. Although a society in which government has total control over its citizens seems to be a little extreme‚ there are definitely clues that can be seen today that suggest that we are headed in the same direction. Some of the resemblances between the

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    Game theory is defined as “the study of the ways in which strategic interactions among economic agents produce outcomeswith respect to thepreferences of those agents‚ where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents” by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Ross 1997). The disciplines most involved in game theory “are mathematics‚ economics and the other social and behavioral sciences” (McCain 1997). Game theory was created to confront the problem and provide a theory

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    Prison Experiment study? How did the student’s act during the study? 12 guards 12 prisoners 24 students. Experiment suggest the substantial problem with group behavior. 12. Crank and Caldero suggested that the brutal treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the behavior of the students in the Stanford Prison experiment resulted from what? Group behavior‚

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    Patricia Cornwell‚ a famous writer‚ once said‚ that “I believe the root of all evil is the abuse of power”. To receive power in one’s life‚ they bring out strong emotions‚ such as fear or guilt to persuade the person to obey their commands. But‚ these people are simply exercising their power‚ and only have a relationship with them asymmetrically. The person will authority has the ability to limit the choices of another‚ and uses physically or psychologically pain only to pursue their goal. A person

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