What Can Be Understood About the Kind of Willingness to Obey

question 93

Multiple Choice

What can be understood about the kind of willingness to obey authority that Milgram witnessed in his research?

• A)Milgram's research seems to have been an anomaly; people are not usually so obedient to authority in any kind of situation.
• B)Milgram's research seems to have been an anomaly; people usually are quite obedient when it comes to trivial or innocuous orders, but they are almost never so obedient when it comes to dangerous orders.
• C)People usually are quite obedient to authority, and Milgram's research demonstrates just how dangerous obedience is.
• D)People usually are quite obedient to authority, but most of the time this obedience has prosocial consequences; the situation that Milgram created in his research is very unique.

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