Shocking obedience

a laboratory device with switches and dials

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Experimental studies of people’s willingness to follow orders to administer what they think are electric shocks to an unseen stranger gain fame and notoriety for social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Milgram’s “shock box” is shown).

From the Nature Index

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