Film highlights the temptations and perils of blind obedience to authority
"How much can people be talked into and how readily will they defer to an authority figure of sufficient craft and cunning?"
That question was answered 50 years ago by the infamous experiment conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram, in which an authority figure in a lab coat instructed participants to deliver what they were told were increasingly severe electric shocks to someone in another room whom they could hear but not see.
Even as the screams became louder and more agonizing, two-thirds of the participants were induced fully to comply by delivering the increased electric shocks.
No comments:
Post a Comment