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The Milgram Experiments

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Stanley Milgram found that most participants would continue delivering what they believed were harmful shocks when an authority figure instructed them to proceed.

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Participants protested, showed distress, and continued — obedience persisted even as they believed they were causing harm.

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The finding concerns obedience to authority, which is a different mechanism from conformity to a peer group.