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Monsieur Milgram

- March 28, 2010

bq. Egged on by a glamorous presenter, cries of “punishment” from a studio audience and dramatic music, the overwhelming majority of the participants obeyed orders to continue delivering the shocks – despite the man’s screams of agony and pleas for them to stop.

A French game show mimicked the Milgram experiment. About 80% of contestants obeyed until the highest shock level. The story is here. The game show actually found a higher level of obedience than the baseline experiment in Milgram. This could perhaps be attributed to the urgings of the audience, the music, etc.

[Hat tip to Alyx Mark.]

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