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Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience PB_Gift_Guide leading historians argue that racismHow can obedience and carrying out orders lead to horrific acts such as the Holocaust or the genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, or Bosnia? For the most part, it is a mystery why obeying instructions from an authority can convince people to kill other human beings, sometimes without hesitation and with incredible cruelty. Combining social and cognitive neuroscience with real life accounts from genocide perpetrators, this book sheds light on the process