Question

In what study was an experimental setting staged to make participants think that they were causing harm to another participant by administering electric shocks? tuskegee syphilis study milgram's obedience experiments robber's cave experiment stanford prison study

Answer 1

Milgram's obedience study was performed in 1963. People in the study asked another person (and actor sitting behind a screen) a memory question. If the actor answered incorrectly, the study participant was told to administer dangerous electrical shocks to the actor. The study participants felt bad about administering the shocks, and did not know the person behind the screen was an actor. The study participants still continued to administer the shocks when directed by a man in a white coat. This study was used to show how easy it was for people to participate in killing people in the holocaust.