The Gradually Escalating Levels of Destructive Obedience in the Milgram

question 27

Multiple Choice

The gradually escalating levels of destructive obedience in the Milgram experiments best illustrate one of the potential dangers of

• A) deindividuation.
• B) social facilitation.
• C) groupthink.
• D) the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

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