Fast forward to 2015 when a group of Polish
scientists who decided to repeat Milgram’s experiments. Dr Tomasz Grzyb, a study
author, reported that the results are just as surprising in this century as
they were in the last. Eighty people participated in the study. Researchers
found that 90% of participants went all the way to the maximum level of
electrocution after being ‘ordered’ to do so by the experimenter. Grzyb said
that half a century after Milgram’s original research into obedience to
authority, a striking majority of subjects are still willing to electrocute a
helpless individual. He also reported that upon
learning about Milgram’s original experiments, a vast majority of people claimed,
“I would never behave in such a manner.” Nevertheless, this repeat study has
illustrated again the tremendous power of a situation in which the participants
are confronted with obedience demands and how easily they can agree to things
which they find unpleasant. Ask
yourself, “What
you would do if repeatedly ordered to give a strong electric shock to a
helpless stranger?”
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