“…Although many considered assessments of the ethics of Stanley Milgram's classic and controversial research on ‘obedience to authority’ have been offered (Baumrind, ; Kaufmann, ; Nicholson, ), little is currently known about how the hundreds of research participants themselves oriented to the moral significance of their actions. With the ongoing resurgence of interest among social psychologists in interpreting and explaining social behaviour in Milgram's experiments (Burger, , ; Haslam, Reicher, Millard, & McDonald, ; Haslam, Loughnan, & Perry, ; Haslam, Reicher, & Birney, ; Hollander, ; Perry, ; Rochat & Blass, ; Russell, , ), it is striking that so little is currently known about how participants justified their actions.…”