It is likely that participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner because when confronted with a confusing,unfamiliar,and upsetting situation,they would turn to the experimenter for cues as to how to proceed.This speculation in essence identifies _______ as a source of participants' destructive obedience.

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Informational social influence occurs when people look to others for guidance in ambiguous or unfamiliar situations. In Milgram's experiment, participants may have turned to the experimenter for cues on how to act when they were uncertain of what to do, leading to their obedience to authority figures.

It Is Likely That Participants in Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments