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Audio tapes challenge Milgram obedience findings

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 31, 2026
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Dayton Daily News Mar 22, 1974 page 3, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Modified with Google Gemini)

Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments, the famous 1960s studies where volunteers were told to deliver electric shocks to a stranger, have been taught in introductory psychology courses for decades as a demonstration of how readily people follow aut…

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