PSYA02H3 Lecture : chapter 15 part 2

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Obedience: a person of a higher status (authority) issues an order and people obey it. Systemic killing of millions by nazis in wwii. U. s. soldiers massacre in my lair during vietnam war. Some it is honourable and appreciated but at times it is bad (nazis example), when nazis. Social psychologists say that the situation often exerts strong pressures on the individual; orders given by the people in authority create such pressures. The level of shock ranged from low to moderate to strong to very strong to intense to very dangerous. Out of the 100 people placed on the experiment, we would think about 1/100 would go till the end but about 50% of the people went till the end. Some of the teachers even laughed while issuing shocks even when the learner was in pain, a lot of the people continued because they were told to.

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