In All Likelihood,participants in Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments Conducted in the 1960s

question 102

Multiple Choice

In all likelihood,participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner because they were concerned that the experimenter would be disappointed or perhaps even angry with them.Such concerns reflect the power of _______ to induce obedience to authority.

• A) the reciprocity norm
• B) mindless conformity
• C) normative social influence
• D) shame
• E) informational social influence

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