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Antonis Iliakis

Apr 19

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The Milgram Experiment And The Perils Of Obedience

How far will you go to obey an order?

Do we know how to recognize when our obedience to authority is the result of a conscious choice or manipulation?

In the 1960s, the American psychologist Stanley Milgram tried to answer this question with a controversial experiment.

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