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The secret shock study - by Adam Mastroianni

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Would you electrocute your son for science?

The secret shock study Would you electrocute your son for science? Adam Mastroianni Jan 01, 2022 85 14 3 Share In the early 1960s, regular people entered a basement laboratory and proceeded to shock a stranger to death. The unwitting participants were made “teachers” in an ostensible study of “memory and learning” and tasked with testing a “learner's” ability to remember pairs of words, delivering increasingly powerful shocks whenever the learner got a question wrong. As the experiment progressed and the shocks got worse, the learner would begin to scream, beg to be let out, and ultimately go

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