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Seminários em Neurociência e Cognição - 4a 02/07 13h: Emilie Caspar (Ghent University, Belgium) - From interviews with genocide perpetrators and rescuers to the neuroscience of (dis)obedience

Convidamos todos a participar da palestra online "From interviews with genocide perpetrators and rescuers to the neuroscience of (dis)obedience", com como convidada Emilie Caspar (Ghent University, Bélgica), na quarta-feira dia 02/07, das 13-14h. Haverá transmissão na conferênciaweb, pelo endereço https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/ufabc/ppc-ncg . Todos podem acompanhar presencialmente na sala Zeta-212 no campus da UFABC em São Bernardo do Campo para a projeção do seminário e a interação mediada com a palestrante. O seminário será conduzido em inglês.    

 

Resumo: It is no longer necessary to establish that human beings will follow immoral orders, even in cold blood. As Howard Zinn pointed out, "historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience" (Zinn, 1997). Beyond historical events, experimental research has also highlighted the human tendency to obey orders that could cause serious harm to others (Milgram, 1963). Decades after Stanley Milgram's foundational studies, a neuroscientific perspective on obedience has emerged, aiming to understand how obeying orders can pave the way for moral transgressions and antisocial behavior towards others. This talk will highlight recent research using electrophysiological techniques and neuroimaging, paralleled with interviews and experimental work conducted with former genocide perpetrators in Rwanda and Cambodia, but also with rescuers who resisted social pressure. The main neuroscience findings indicate that obedience to orders modifies cognitive and affective processes compared to freely decided actions. These findings complement the results of the qualitative interviews, where most former perpetrators, be them from Rwanda or Cambodia, reported that obedience to authority was the main factor for taking part in a genocide. These studies together aim to provide an understanding of the mechanisms associated with moral transgressions under the influence of authority.
 
Biografia: Emilie A. Caspar is an Associate Professor at Ghent University. She earned her PhD in social and cognitive neuroscience from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her primary expertise focuses on themes related to obedience to authority. She initiates scientific projects in countries and among populations that neuroscientists seldom study, such as inmates, military personnel, perpetrators, and survivors of genocide. She has recently authored a trade book on her research, Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Sciences of Obedience (Cambridge University Press).
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