Sentences with phrase «social psychologists wondered»

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All human societies have been shaped by religion, leading psychologists to wonder how it arose, and whether particular forms of belief have affected other aspects of evolved social structure.

Humans aren't the only social animal, however, and psychologist Annika Paukner wondered whether other primates share the imitation - friendship connection.

In the early 1960s, Yale University social psychologist Stanley Milgram, himself the son of Jews that escaped the Holocaust, wondered how ordinary people could be persuaded to act so pitilessly as the Nazi war criminals.