A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments

Slater, Mel; Antley, Angus; Davison, Adam; Swapp, David; Guger, Christoph; Barker, Chris; Pistrang, Nancy; V. Sánchez-Vives, María

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000039

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A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments

Published in PLoS ONE • Dec 20, 2006

Authors:

Mel Slater

Angus Antley

Adam Davison

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Stanley Milgram's 1960s experimental findings that people would administer apparently lethal electric shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure remain critical for understanding obedience. Yet, due to the ethical controversy that his experiments ignited, it is nowadays im...

Subject

Milgram experiment

Obedience

Social psychology

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