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55 Post author: lukeprog 01 April 2011 07:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 January 2012 06:44:51PM *  1 point [-]

In 1961, Stanley Milgram began his famous obedience experiments. He found that ordinary people would deliver (what they believed to be) excruciatingly painful electric shocks to another person if instructed to do so by an authority figure.

lukeprog: After listening to the latest Radiolab episode "The Bad Show", I think you should reconsider Stanley Milgram's findings.