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Article #78Re: OBEDIENCE WAS: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
From: Ika Geers
Date: Wed, 04 May 1994 12:21
Date: Wed, 04 May 1994 12:21
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Doc (destewar@phakt.usc.edu) schrieb: > >above is empirically false. I refer you to Stanley Milgram's excellent > >and disturbing book "Obedience to Authority". In it, he discusses a > >series of (now fairly famous) psychological experiments he conducted. > >Many ordinary people, acting under orders from what they perceived as a > >legitimate authority, were willing to administer electric shocks to > >the point of causing a (simulated, for experimental purposes) heart > >attack in another person involved in simple tests. > > I don't know if anyone has done similar studies in Europe, but > ************************* There is a very moving documentary film on these experiments. And in the end the speaker says that these experiments where repeated in different countries. I don't remember the exact percentage of people willing to obey the orders in the US, I think it was about 60 %. But I remember exactly, that the germans where the most obedient with around 80 %. I only hope I wouldn't have done so. marlene -- /* Ika Geers: Never say never */ /* Internet: marlene@cube.net */ /* CompuServe: 73250,652 */
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