Would you deliver an electric shock at someone's orders? A new
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By A Mystery Man Writer
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Product Description
More than 50 years ago, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, when prodded by someone in charge, just about every one of us would do something that most would find deeply disturbing: comply with an authority figure’s stern directive to deliver painful electric shocks to an unseen (but loudly protesting) person who answered a question incorrectly..
Caught between the power of an authority figure and our own qualms, we are more often creatures of expectation than we are creatures of personal conviction.