Dr. Berger’s experiment attempted to test the morality of people when an authority figure was present. In this experiment, the test subject was told to teach word pairings to a “learner”, each time the learner was wrong, an electric shock would be administered to the learner, each additional wrong answers the shock voltage would be increased. In the actual experiment no shocks were administered, and the real test subject was the teacher to see how many shocks they would administer. In the experiment, 65% of men and 73% of women would administer over the maximum 150 volts. For the reasoning behind why the subjects administered such a high voltage, many participants simply said it was because it was their job, they were told to do it so they