Why Would It Be So Difficult to Replicate the Research

question 149

Multiple Choice

Why would it be so difficult to replicate the research by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram today?

• A) People today are much less likely to conform to an authority.
• B) It would be unlikely that such research would obtain ethics approval.
• C) These studies work only in the United States,not in Canada.
• D) Men are less likely to conform than women.

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Definitions:

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