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Which national group was least conforming in Stanley Milgram’s study of Americans Norwegians and French participants?
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Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist Stanley Milgram with the “shock generator” used in his famous experiment at Yale University in the 1960s.
In Stanley Milgram’s study of conformity, which utilized an auditory task to measure how participants distinguished between the lengths of two tones, the French participants were found to be the least conforming of the three groups studied (Americans, Norwegians, and the French).1