If an authority figure ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person, would you follow orders? Most people would answer ...
and another for the teacher and experimenter with an electric shock generator.
Modern-day Milgram experiment shows that people obeying commands
These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been ...
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... who blandly followed orders without much thought for the consequences,
Thanks to a new study, we now know that this was true in 2015 as well.
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram's electric-shock studies showed that people will
They were required to inflict apparently lethal electric shocks on someone who
commands to continue and ended up giving the maximum "shock" of 450 volts.