Most Will Administer Shocks When Prodded By ‘Authority Figure’ According To Researcher Replicating Milgram

Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure. Jerry M. Burger, PhD, replicated one of the famous obedience experiments of the late Stanley Milgram, PhD, and found that compliance rates in the replication were only slightly lower than those found by Milgram.

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Filed under: Psychology on January 3rd, 2009