People Likely to Kill out of Obedience

Perhaps not many of you know that, when told so by a professional person with enough authority, you could even kill another human being in the name of science. This was demonstrated decades ago by a terrible study on authoritarianism. The real victims of the test, the participants, ... [ read more >> ]

Stanley Milgram and a subject during the test

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Stanley Milgram and a subject during the test