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Obedience to Authority: Why Ordinary People Do Terrible Things When Told To

Stanley Milgram asked psychiatrists to predict how many Yale subjects would administer the maximum 450-volt shock to another person if ordered to by an experimenter. The consensus prediction: about 1-2%. The actual result: 65%. Milgram's 1963 obedience experiments remain the most disturbing findings in social psychology — revealing that the willingness to harm others under authority is not a feature of evil people but of ordinary social situations.