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hntrader on Jan 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obedience to Authority: The Experiments by Stanley...

I wonder the impact of how widespread the knowledge of the original Milgram experiments is. If the subjects figure that the pain is fake because they've heard about this experiment before they might be more willing to administer the shock.

cutemonster on Feb 2, 2021 [–]

I'd think they'd react in the opposite way, if they knew about the test -- that they wouldn't want to be one of the yes sayers.

(And some might have thought that the whole thing was then a waste of their time anyway?)

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