Troubling Discoveries A photo of psychologist Stanley Milgram appears on the cover of his biography, The Man Who Shocked The World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram, by Thomas Blass. Milgram’s research illuminated the dangers of human obedience. Feeling pressure from authority figures, participants in Milgram’s studies were willing to administer what they believed to be painful and life-threatening electric shocks to other human beings (Milgram, 1963).

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