Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment

Stanley Milgram experimented with the theory that people will likely submit and follow an authority figure. He determined this from a famous experiment he conducted named the Milgram Obedience Experiment. In this test, he gathered random people and assigned them as the “teacher”, and placed them in a room with the controls for a shock machine (with various settings, from slight shock to XXX). Then he placed a confederate in a room, attached to a shock machine, who was the “student”. The “teacher” was to ask them questions and for every they got wrong, the “teacher” had to shock them, however the “student” was simply just pretending to get shocked. As the experiment continued, the “student” would begin to ask to be released or complain about