Social psychology already knows how to produce torturers through small-step induction

Evidence

Psychologists are, understandably, reluctant to write the “production of torturers” handbook, but social psychologists certainly have the knowledge to do so. The insights for it are there in such articles as Zimbardo (1969) on deindividuation, Gibson and Haritos-Fatouros (1986) on the recruitment of the Greek torturers during the reign of the colonels, and others. The essence of the process involves causing individuals, under pressure, to take small steps Social organization for the production of evil 523 along a continuum that ends with evildoing. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3941

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle on how ‘training programs’ for harm — from hazing to cult recruitment to institutional abuse — deliberately exploit small-step induction.
• QUESTION: The paragraph cuts off mid-sentence at ‘take small steps’ — worth noting the sentence’s conclusion was not captured.
• XREF: connects to: Exploitation may be built into Method acting training itself. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 663; Social psychologists explain genocidal behavior through situational pressure plus unexamined psychological processes — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 352