Milgram's research on obedience is notable for having led some participants to believe that a helpless man in the next room had been rendered unconscious or even dead by a strong electric shock, marked "xxx" on a shock generator. What was the highest voltage that participants believed they could administer?

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Milgram's research on obedience is notable for having led some participants to believe that a helpless man in the next room had been rendered unconscious or even dead by a strong electric shock, marked "xxx" on a shock generator. What was the highest voltage that participants believed they could administer?

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The highest voltage that participants in Milgram's obedience experiments believed they could administer was marked as 450 volts on the shock generator, labeled with "xxx" to indicate extreme danger.

Milgram's Research on Obedience Is Notable for Having Led Some