Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · chapter 6 · id influence-c6-05-milgrams-obedience-experiments

“Milgram's obedience experiments have been replicated across cultures and decades with consistent results -- approximately 61-66% of participants administered maximum shocks.”

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Burger (2009), Replicating Milgram, American Psychologist 64(1)DOI registry: valid

70% continued to 150 volts, compared to 82.5% in Milgram's comparable condition. Obedience rates were virtually identical.

Haslam, Reicher & Birney (2014), Nothing by Mere Authority: Evidence That in an Experimental Analogue of the Milgram Paradigm Participants Are Motivated Not by Orders but by Appeals to Science, Journal of Social IssuesDOI registry: valid

Participants in Milgram-style paradigms are not simply obeying orders but are motivated by identification with the scientific mission, complicating the simple obedience narrative.

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