Before Conducting His Classic Research on Obedience to Authority, Milgram

question 183

Multiple Choice

Before conducting his classic research on obedience to authority, Milgram conducted a survey in which he asked a number of psychiatrists to predict what percentage of people would "go all the way" and administer the highest levels of shocks. The psychiatrists in his survey predicted that ____ would do so.

• A) only .01% (1 in 1000)
• B) only about 5%
• C) about 25%
• D) about 35%

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