Over the past three decades, my research and that of my colleagues has demonstrated the relative ease with which ordinary people can be led to behave in ways that qualify as evil. We have put research participants in experiments where powerful situational forces – anonymity, group pressures, or diffusion of personal responsibility – led them blindly to obey authority and to aggress against innocent others after dehumanizing them.
过去三十年里，我和我的同事所进行的研究表明了普通的人群会被相对自然地引导向被大家认为是邪恶的行为方式。我们让参加研究的人接受实验，在实验中强大的情境力量，也就是匿名、群体压力或个人责任的传播会使他们盲目地听从当权者的指令，在丧失人性后会恶毒地攻击无辜的人。