Suppose you were designing an obedience study and wanted to reduce or lower the obedience rates found by Milgram.Which of the following would most likely generate the results you want?

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Making the participants feel fully responsible for the victim's welfare would increase their sense of accountability and decrease their willingness to obey the authority figure's commands that would harm the victim. This was seen in variations of Milgram's study where the participant had to physically force the victim's hand onto an electric shock plate, which increased the rates of disobedience. The other options, such as having a legitimate authority figure, placing the victim in another room, or having all female participants, have not consistently been shown to significantly affect obedience rates.

Suppose You Were Designing an Obedience Study and Wanted to Reduce