Research has confirmed that the reason why teachers obeyed the experimenter and delivered what they believed were potentially lethal shocks to completely innocent learners was because of:

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The correct answer is normative pressure. Research by Stanley Milgram on obedience to authority found that participants obeyed the experimenter's instructions to deliver potentially lethal electric shocks to a learner because they were under normative pressure and believed that they were expected to comply with the authority figure's request. Fear of punishment, the door-in-the-face technique, and systematic persuasion were not the primary factors that led to obedience to authority in this study.

Research Has Confirmed That the Reason Why Teachers Obeyed the Experimenter