| ▲ | p-e-w 4 hours ago | |
> Across these variations, the overall result stays quite consistent: under certain conditions, ordinary people can be led to do harmful things. The pop culture version of what happened in those experiments is “regular people will administer potentially lethal shocks when told to”, and that claim has been refuted experimentally many times over. Contrary to most reports, the original experimenters never told participants that the shocks are supposedly lethal or even dangerous. When participants were actually told that there was a health risk, and that they should ignore it, the vast majority of participants refused to administer the shocks in a later recreation.[1] In other words, the Milgram experiment, as commonly understood, is somewhere between sensationalism and an outright lie. | ||