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So yes, I believe that this experiment can cause a lot of psychological harm. The stress that the participants endured was great enough to cause psychological harm. They had signs of tension which were trembling, sweating, stuttering, nervous laughs, biting lips, digging fingernails into their palm, etc. People could have had very uncontrollable seizures. Stopping at a reasonable point to not put people through the agony like what happened back in Milgram’s actual experiment, was a great idea to do. Some people are willing to give dangerous shocks to obey the law, not knowing the problems that can take place afterwards. In Milgram’s official experiment, once the “teachers” seen that their learners were okay, their stress levels decreased dramatically. Milgram followed up with the participants after a period of time to make certain that there was no harm