In the news, a friend tells you about a high school girls' lacrosse team that is embroiled in a hazing scandal. Senior varsity captains ordered the junior varsity lacrosse players to carry out disturbing acts upon freshman lacrosse players. Which of the following conclusions is MOST likely based on the classic Milgram research?

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The Milgram research demonstrated that people can be placed in powerful situations that overwhelm them and lead them to comply with orders that would otherwise be considered immoral or unethical. In this hazing situation, the junior varsity lacrosse players may have felt pressure to comply with the senior varsity captains who held authority over them, even if the acts they were ordered to carry out were disturbing. This is similar to how participants in Milgram's study complied with the authority figure (the experimenter) even when it went against their own moral beliefs.

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