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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
#1. The Milgram Experiment (1961)
And people wonder how we could have prisoner abuse.
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Milgram got in a bit of trouble for that experiment because:
a) he proved something people that didn't want to think about
b) some of his subjects were very disturbed by what they did in his experiment.
When I was in college I watched a video of another Milgram experiment, where he set out to explain the
Kitty Genovese incident, in which a woman was stabbed and noone helped. Milgram and others theorized that in larger groups, many people find it hard to initiate any action, figuring that 'someone else' will do it.
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