If You Wanted to Increase Obedience in a Milgram Obedience

question 231

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to increase obedience in a Milgram obedience study, which of the following would you do?

• A) use an ordinary person as the authority figure
• B) make sure that the individual had to press the shock button him- or her-self
• C) move the victim as far away as possible
• D) move the authority figure as far away as possible
• E) make sure that the victim is as close by as possible

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