PSY 226 Lecture 1: Lesson 18.docx
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O normative pressures made it difficult to refuse to continue to study. Continuing milgram would be disappointed, hurt, or even angry if they quit. From participants perspective: the experimenter was an expert o. Conflicting norms, which may lead to conforming to an inappropriate norm when we are unsure which is right. Self-justification: as a reaction to dissonance o o: note the reasons do not include aggression. The studies do not show that people are evil, but rather that social pressures can make people act in inhumane ways. The experiment focused on the people who were willing to continue from there o o: other safe guard.
