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The Obedience Study By Stanley Milgram

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There are a variety of studies that relate to social psychology. One of the studies that was well known in the field was the Obedience Study by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist from Yale University. The Obedience Study was for Milgram to find out if people obey a person’s order that connects to some Nazis who did some horrific acts during World War II. This study has a total of 40 participants in their age range from 20 to 50 years old and was told to be part of an experiment where they were given electrical shocks as an act of punishment on learning. They were also told to be like a “student” while the person who is conducting the experiment acts like a “teacher” who is also in-charge of giving electrical shocks. This experiment goes by as
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