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The document summarizes a study on obedience where participants were told to administer electric shocks to another person. Most participants continued following orders and administered shocks up to the maximum voltage, despite pleas from the recipient to stop. The study showed that people are able to harm others if ordered to do so by an authority figure, and personal ethics are less predictive of such behavior than commonly believed.

Author

Punam Sengar

Language

EN