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Stanley Milgram conducted an Electric Shock Experiment at Yale in 1961. Although 64 years old, the findings of the study are as relevant today as they were then ...
"Key Takeaways
Aim: The experiment studied obedience to authority, exploring whether individuals would obey instructions to harm another person because an authority figure told them to.
Method: Participants were instructed by an authority figure to administer increasingly intense electric shocks to a “learner” (an actor), who feigned pain and distress.
Results: A significant percentage of participants obeyed the authority figure and administered the maximum level of shocks, despite their apparent discomfort.
Conclusion: The study demonstrated that ordinary people are surprisingly likely to obey authority figures, even when those orders conflict with their own moral beliefs."
With the atrocities ordered by #Putin & #Netanyahu, and now seeing #Trump2 blatantly ignoring the laws of the land undoing decades of democratic progress, it's interesting that the following article on this study was published again only a few days ago ...
