Introduction
Stanley Milgram conducted a series of studies at Yale University in the 1960's and 70's to determine the likelihood of a person's willingness to follow the immoral orders of a superior. Put simply, participants were ordered to administer increasingly powerful shocks to others whom they thought to also be study participants. Despite increasing levels of resistance and anxiety as the voltage increased, a surprising 65% of study participants proved willing to follow orders to administer the full 450-volt shocks. Of course, the shocks weren't real, but study participants only learned this after the fact. For this significant majority, their willingness to obediently follow instructions was stronger than their own moral objections.
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