"teacher" roles in the experiment fully believed that every press of the button would administer electric shocks to the other participant. Milgram's obedience experiments illustrated that ...

Born to Jewish parents and deeply affected by the horrors of World War II, Milgram designed an experiment at Yale ... act as "teachers" administering electric shocks to "learners" when they ...

even dangerous electric shocks to a fellow human being. Two-thirds of Milgram’s participants delivered shocks as they heard cries of pain, warnings of heart trouble, and then finally silence. The ...

One of the most powerful examples of this is the Milgram experiment. In post-WWII America ... participants were told to administer electric shocks of varying potency to a “learner” (actually ...