• DOI:10.1037/H0040525
Corpus ID: 18309531

BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF OBEDIENCE.

@article{Milgram1963BEHAVIORALSO,
  title={BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF OBEDIENCE.},
  author={S. Milgram},
  journal={Journal of abnormal psychology},
  year={1963},
  volume={67},
  pages={
          371-8
        }
}

• S. Milgram
• Published 1963
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of abnormal psychology

This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It consists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of the E. The primary dependent variable is the maximum shock the S is willing to administer before he… Expand

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