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The Milgram Experiment is, in the early 1960s, a series of social psychology experiments that were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting in a fictitious experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner". These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.

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[โ€“] TraipsersWill@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but all the results of the experiment would be invalid, because everyone was just clowning around.

Yes. Cream pies have a much lower fatality rate than electric shocks.