Perpetrator Behavior as Destructive Obedience: An Evaluation of Stanley Milgram's Perspective, the Most Influential Social-Psychological Approach to the Holocaust

Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Blass, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authority; Behavior; Genocide; Germany; Holocaust; Jews; Obedience; Perpetrators; Social psychology; Stanley milgram

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249132846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133622.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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