In All Likelihood, Participants in Milgram's Obedience Experiments (Conducted in the 1960s

question 167

Multiple Choice

In all likelihood, participants in 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) informational social influence
• B) the reciprocity norm
• C) mindless conformity
• D) normative social influence

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