Replicating Milgram: People are still willing to obey authority and inflict pain
Here is an article from Cognitive Daily on the recent replication of Milgram’s classic obedience to authority study.
In that study, participants played the role of “teachers” asked to give electric shocks to “students” during what appeared to be a learning experiment. The key finding was that people were surprisingly willing to obey and give increasing levels of electric shock.
Nobody thought the study could ever be repeated because of ethical concerns, but now it has been done.
And the results? People are still willing to obey.
Would we still obey? The first replication of Milgram’s work in over 30 years
Seventy percent were willing to continue past the 150-volt mark, prompting the experimenter to halt the study. This result was statistically indistinguishable from Milgram’s.
Posted: January 29th, 2009 under Human nature.
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