How Does Diversification Affect Systematic and Unsystematic Risk

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How does diversification affect systematic and unsystematic risk?

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Definitions:

Social Psychology

The scientific study of how individuals think, influence, and relate to one another within a social context.

Milgram's Studies

A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

Obedience To Authority

The psychological mechanism that drives individuals to comply with instructions, orders, or demands from perceived authority figures.

The Holocaust

The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II.