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The World Today - Milgram obedience experiments more art than science 10/02/2015

Milgram obedience experiments more art than science 10/02/2015

abc.net.au/worldtoday


WMA audio and transcript can be found at the link above.

Here’s another person casting doubt on Professor Stanley Milgram’s famous “I vass only following orders” experiment conducted in the early 1960s. Rather than Milgram’s 65% of participants being prepared to inflict pain on others when ordered, Kathryn Millard finds that his own records (of 25 versions of the experiment) show that 58% of participants resisted the orders.

See also: Gina Perry: Milgram’s Obedience Experiments & her book Behind the Shock Machine.