Milgram - obedience to authority

Today we introduced Milgram's classic experiment examining obedience to an unjust authority (that is, an authority figure who tells a participant to inflict pain and possibly death on a random person they've just met).

The results, well replicated in a range of settings but still doubted by some, continue to shock. It seems that more than half of us would administer what we believe to be fatal electric shocks to a stranger if we were told that an experiment 'required it'.

Here is the presentation.

This short video has some footage of the actual experiment which gives a flavour of the real thing:

Here is the specification sheet / revision checklist for the whole of Social Influence.

We will have a test on the research we have covered so far on Thursday.