Some Social Psychologists Suggest That Milgram's Participants in the Obedience

question 31

Multiple Choice

Some social psychologists suggest that Milgram's participants in the obedience to authority experiments were really doing what they thought was the right thing to do. This explanation would be consistent with:

• A) social deviance theory
• B) social identity theory
• C) mirror neuron theory
• D) the autokinetic effect
• E) all of the above

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