Question

The study of obedience took on a renewed importance in the wake of ________.

Answer 1

The answer is in the wake of the atrocities committed by soldiers in Nazi Germany. In addition, investigation of the participants in Milgram's obedience study has specified that which personality trait was highly associated with the willingness to be obedient. The naive subjects in the Stanley Milgram experimentation were given the chance to administer shocks to destitute victims. The thoroughgoing voltage that could be coped in one shock is 450.