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| Permalink View Article Stats (2 comments) Shocking study: most will torture if ordered | Reuters Quicklink submitted by sometimes blinded (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Studies in the 60's, control of others allowed insight into shocking behavior of people in position of power. Repeating some aspects of these experiments with carefully screened volunteers to represent 'average' US citizen, Burger found similar behavior today. Despite the use of a planted 'volunteer' who refused to obey the experiment scenario, 63% of the participants continued administering shocks to others |
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the Milgram study
by Mikhail Lyubansky on Friday, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:20:56 AM
Agreed
by sometimes blinded on Friday, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:50:52 AM