In July 1961, Stanley Milgram sought out an explanation for how so many Nazis could be complicit in the atrocities of the Holocaust. He began one of the most infamous studies of all time, “The Milgram Experiment,” in which participants were instructed to progressively increase the voltage of an electric shock delivered to a man sitting in another room. Even though the participants were unaware the resulting cries of pain were pre-recorded, under the instruction of the authority figure leading the…
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