Shocking? Most Will Torture If Ordered -- MSNBCReplica of infamous experiment finds people dutifully deliver painful shocks
WASHINGTON - Some things never change. Scientists said on Friday they had replicated an experiment in which people obediently delivered painful shocks to others if encouraged to do so by authority figures.
Seventy percent of volunteers continued to administer electrical shocks — or at least they believed they were doing so — even after an actor claimed they were painful, Jerry Burger of Santa Clara University in California found. The obedience rates in the new study were only slightly statistically lower than in the notorious original experiments, which were conducted in the early 1960s by Yale University professor Stanley Milgram.
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My Comment: I have a list of 1,000 politicians .... that if they were on the slab hooked up to a device that delivers a shock .... I would not need any order or encouragement .... and the shocks would be at maximum .... and I will be smiling.
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