The Milgram Shock Studies are Replicated After 47 Years

The obedience studies conducted by Stanley Milgram in the early '60s have finally been replicated in a university setting. Will people obey an authority figure and give a stranger a dangerous shock - or have things changed in the last 47 years such that people will be more willing to be disobedient to authority? In this  episode of The Psych Files I review both the original Milgram obedience study and the new study conducted by professor Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University.

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