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2009

Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today?

Jerry M. Burger

A partial replication of Milgram's obedience procedure, modified to meet modern ethical limits, found rates of obedience to a similar breakpoint nearly as high as Milgram found in 1963, against the common assumption that people would refuse today.

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Behavioral Study of ObedienceStanley Milgram, 1963Ordinary volunteers, told by an authority figure to keep going, delivered what they believed were dangerous electric shocks to a protesting stranger far more often than anyone predicted beforehand.

Filed under Social Psychology in Psychology.