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Obedience to Authority

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  • Milgram experiment
    authority
    / Authority as a psychological question

    …later wrote in his book Obedience to Authority (1974), that adults would do almost anything when commanded by an authority, including inflicting painful electric shocks remotely on an unseen person (who, unknown to the subject, did not actually receive any such shocks). He traced this willingness, in no small part,…

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    …later wrote in his book Obedience to Authority (1974), that adults would do almost anything when commanded by an authority, including inflicting painful electric shocks remotely on an unseen person (who, unknown to the subject, did not actually receive any such shocks). He traced this willingness, in no small part,…

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