Stanley Milgram asked psychiatrists, college students, and middle-class adults to predict how the subjects would behave in the experimental situation. Of the three groups, only the college students correctly predicted how most of the subjects would behave in the experimental situation.

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All three groups predicted that only a very small fraction of the subjects would administer the highest shock levels, but in reality, a significant majority of the participants were willing to administer the highest levels of shock when instructed by an authority figure.

Stanley Milgram Asked Psychiatrists, College Students, and Middle-Class Adults to Predict