OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY - AN EXPERIMENTAL VIEW

Half a century ago, social scientist Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments. The 'teacher' is told to administer electroshocks in progressively more painful degrees to the 'learner'. The teacher - unaware that the learner is an actor receiving no shocks at all - is the real focus of the study. These controversial and criticized experiments illustrate how people will obey authority regardless of consequences.