In 1961, Stanley Milgram began his famous obedience experiments. He found that ordinary people would deliver (what they believed to be) excruciatingly painful electric shocks to another person if instructed to do so by an authority figure.
lukeprog: After listening to the latest Radiolab episode “The Bad Show”, I think you should reconsider Stanley Milgram’s findings.
lukeprog: After listening to the latest Radiolab episode “The Bad Show”, I think you should reconsider Stanley Milgram’s findings.