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Sophie Richardot is a member of CURAPP-ESS (University Research Centre on Public Action and Politics, Epistemology and Social Sciences), and a professor in education sciences at the UPJV (Université Picardie-Jules Verne) in Amiens. Her research tackles the issue of moral and social psychology of education. Her work focuses on obedience and disobedience to authority. She is particularly interested in how the experiments of Stanley Milgram were perceived, as well as the processes, both psychological and social, that lead "ordinary individuals" to commit war crimes. Richardot also studies the manner by which children are socialized towards obedience, their sense of what is right and wrong, and the conditions by which independent judgement arises during childhoood.