In Milgram's studies of obedience, participants were

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Milgram's studies of obedience involved participants being ordered to deliver "painful electric shocks" to a stranger. The shocks were not actually real, but the participants did not know that and believed they were actually delivering painful shocks to the strangers. This was the main focus of Milgram's experiment and the key variable he was measuring was the extent to which participants would obey the authority figure and continue to deliver shocks despite the apparent harm being caused.

In Milgram's Studies of Obedience, Participants Were