Stanley Milgram (1963) Was Interested in Researching How Far People

question 7

Multiple Choice

Stanley Milgram (1963) was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Stanley Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities for example, Germans in WWII. He used deception in his study to make participant think they were giving shocks to the subject in the next room. Today, Milgram

• A) could conduct the exact same experiment in the same way
• B) would have to change the experiment radically because he could not use deception in any research project today.
• C) would have to submit a research proposal to the Research Ethics Board at his university before he could start his study.
• D) would be called a sociopath.

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