Which of the following types of conformity pressures induced most of the participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience studies (Milgram,1974)to deliver escalating and life-threatening shocks to an innocent learner?

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Milgram's experiments are best understood as involving both informational and normative social influences. Participants conformed partly because they believed the experimenter had the correct knowledge (informational influence) and partly because they felt a pressure to comply with the expectations of an authority figure and the experimental setting (normative influence).

Which of the Following Types of Conformity Pressures Induced Most