Chapter 2
Summary
This is where slater enters 1960 and looks at the Stanley Milgram Project: Obedience to Authority. This was where a shock machine was created that he brought volunteers in to use. When Milgram ordered them to use it, they were shocking someone else on his authority. A large number of people did this just based on the fact that he was telling them to.
Discussion
This is a very interesting study that still has ramifications today. The human psyche when it is in certain situations are just now becoming understood. The notion of authority is unfortunately used for many bad things in the past and can sometimes appear as the people being bad, but in fact it was simply the situation that they were placed in.
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