Conformity & Obedience Response Paper

READ:
-Sabini & Silver (1982). Available on Blackboard. 
-Chapter 6 in your textbook.
-The New Yorker article about the Abu Ghraib incident (Blackboard)

OPTIONAL: 
I recommend, but don't require, that you look at the following websites which present images from Abu Ghraib. Please note that these images are very disturbing.
Please type (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt font or equivalent) responses to each of the below questions. I anticipate your responses will take approximately 4-5 pages. You should number your responses -- no need to weave your question answers into a "paper."  Please note that I will be looking for explicit references to the concepts and studies contained in the articles you read, in addition to your own thoughtful critique.  Practice citing your sources properly. In addition to any paragraph breaks you put within your answers, you should consider each new question a new paragraph and cite sources accordingly. Include a references page.

1. Discuss how cognitive dissonance, a lack of practice expressing or engaging in disobedience, and constant (unstopping) action, together, influenced behavior in the Milgram study (basic paradigm). Discuss how these factors could have, similarly, influenced the behaviors at Abu Ghraib.

2. Define & contrast technical and moral responsibility. According to Sabini & Silver, in what way did the people who helped keep the Holocaust running confuse these two ideas? Do you think something similar may have happened at Abu Ghraib?

3. Use reliable sources on the internet to investigate one of the following two conflicts, often called genocides: Darfur or Rawanda. See this webpage for information about evaluating websites. Provide a very brief (3-4 sentences) overview of the heart of the conflict (the aggressor, how long did/has it last(ed), etc.). Use what you have learned about social psychology and present two psychological reasons you think this kind of violence may have happened or been allowed to happen. You may comment on any specific event or single aspect of the genocide you find compelling. Be sure to include citations for your website(s).