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op may be referring to this: >“The notion that we somehow automatically obey authority, that we are somehow programmed, doesn’t account for the variability [in
by nyolfen 9y ago
op may be referring to this:
>“The notion that we somehow automatically obey authority, that we are somehow programmed, doesn’t account for the variability [in rates of obedience] across conditions,” he said; in some iterations of Milgram’s study, the rate of compliance was close to 100 percent, while in others it was closer to zero. “We need an account that can explain the variability—when we obey, when we don’t.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous-experiments/384913/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...
the experiment has recently come under more critical attention (along with much of social psychology)