In fact, a series of seminal experiments dating back to the 1960s, conducted by several legendary figures in social psychology, initiated what could be seen as a Golden Age of scientific research investigating the “causes and conditions” leading to evil behavior. In a way, this Golden Age of research on the causes of evil can be traced back to 1961, to what could be considered the watershed event in the modern scientific investigation of human evil: the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, Hitler’s Final Solution.