Stanley Milgram, a Yale University social psychologist, performed an experiment in which subjects were instructed to administer a shock to learners when they made a mistake. What can be concluded from his experiments?

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Milgram's experiments demonstrated that a significant number of individuals would follow orders to administer shocks to others, even to the point of causing apparent harm, when those orders were given by an authority figure. This highlighted the powerful influence of authority on human behavior.

Stanley Milgram, a Yale University Social Psychologist, Performed an Experiment