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Analysis Of The Stanley Milgram Experiment

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In the video of the Stanley Milgram Experiment People were given roles as teachers and students. The students had been hooked up to an electrical system were they had been received questions and whenever they had answered incorrectly they received a dosage of electricity and got progressively got stronger each time they were wrong. At a certain point the student stopped responding to pain and the scientist had kept making them give a voltage. Some People discontinued the experiment. This particular video was humorous at first in the 1st or 2nd dosages of shock. Then it progressively became more sinister by the second. Then anxiety began to kick in at the stage were the student role began to discontinue reaction. The fact that they only continued

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