Crimes of obedience: toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility

1. The My Lai massacre: a military crime of obedience

2. The scope of crimes of obedience: recent cases, persistent issues

3. The duty to obey and the duty to disobey

4. The structure of authority

5. the dynamics of authority

6. Challenging authority

7. Attitudes and norms about obedience: public reactions to the My Lai massacre

8. Responsibility in authority situations

9. Assigning responsibility for a crime of obedience: public reactions to the Calley trial

10. Assertion and denial of responsibility: the generality of reactions to crimes of obedience

11. Individual differences in conceptions of authority and responsibility

12. Rules, roles, and values: three orientations to authority

13. On breaking the habit of unquestioning obedience

Appendix A. Information about and interest in the Calley trial: findings from the 1971 survey

Appendix B. Differences between the 1971 and 1976 survey populations.