Organizational factors alone can turn ordinary people into torturers

Evidence

Experimental results were validated by the revelations in 2004 of widespread torture, abuse, and humiliation of detainees in Iraqi prisons under the supervision of ordinary young American men and women during the American occupation of Iraq. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 656

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 606