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Why Is Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study Important?

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In 1961, social scientist Stanley Milgram carried out research that explored what makes people do evil things even when they know that, morally, they are wrong (Milgram on Milgram (Part 1): Obedience experiments (The Open University, 2014). This study, known as the Milgram’s Obedience Study, aimed to see how far people would go in obeying an authority figure, particularly a malevolent one, who would advocate the administration of electric shock to fellow human beings. In 2009, this study was partially replicated by psychologist Jerry Burger in order to identify whether the outcomes of the study would be the same, even though the societal context had moved on by approximately four decades (Byford, 2014). In this essay, I will discuss key similarities
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