Replicating Milgram: Researcher finds most will administer shocks when prodded by 'authority figure'

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 05:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure.

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