"Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View"

"Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View" refers to a series of psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, which explored how people follow orders from authority figures, even when these orders conflict with personal conscience. In these studies, participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to others, believing they were causing pain. Results showed that many would comply with the authority figure’s instructions, even to potentially harmful extremes. The findings highlight the powerful influence of authority on behavior, raising important ethical questions about conformity, moral judgment, and individual responsibility in society.