Stanley Milgraine experiments:
Subjects were told they were participating in a "learning" study, and a confederate was strapped into a chair and electrodes were attached (the subject did not know that the confederate was always in the chair and was led to believe that they could have been in the chair). The subject is then taken to an adjacent room and the confederate is given tasks to perform. When the confederate made an error, the subject was instructed to administer an electric shock, with increasing voltage as the study progressed.
The results were astounding. ALL subjects continued to administer shocks after the confederate began screaming from the other room. When he began kicking at the wall, some subjects would stop. Most (90%, I believe) would continue when the examiner would tell them that the study would be invalidated if they refused.
A follow-up study explained the details of the study to new subjects. They were told about the confederate and let in on the "secret", and then asked how far they would've gone if they were the subject (they were not told the actual results). NONE of the subjects said they would have continued with the experiment through the end, even though 75% (I believe) of the real subjects did.
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