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Milgram experiment - Wikipedia

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Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner". These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.[2]

Milgram experiment - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Series of social psychology experiments For Milgram's other well-known experiment, see Small-world experiment . "Obedience to Authority" redirects here. For the book, see Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View . The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what T has been told are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confederate. T is led to believe that (in following E's instructions) they are administering electric shocks as punis

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