{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/cf7520d4-c0d5-4b36-8f12-a828c622fc14/9fed3d1e-25b5-434e-9937-8334e4197fad?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60eede6592322e0c04ee9b2f/60eede8c384b620012a88b4e.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>In 1961, two things happened that seemed to change our idea about evil forever: Hannah Arendt reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, and a Yale experiment showed the apparent willingness of subjects to issue electric shocks to their fellow human beings—just because they were told to.</p><p>But what if everything we thought we learnt that year was wrong?</p><p>Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam discuss how we misunderstand the nature of evil.</p><p>Plus: Steve Bloomfield on the march against Brexit, and Sameer Rahim on why Ricky Gervais isn't funny anymore.</p>","author_name":"Prospect Magazine"}