Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination ¿ casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority exemplifies creative thinking at its most potent, and controversial. Interested in the degree to which an ¿authority figure¿ could encourage people to commit acts against their sense of right and wrong, Milgram tricked volunteers for a ¿learning experiment¿ into believing that they were inflicting painful electric shocks on a person in another room. Able to hear convincing sounds of pain and pleas to stop, the volunteers were told by an authority figure ¿ the ¿scientist¿ ¿ that they should continue regardless. Contrary to his own predictions, Milgram discovered that, depending on the exact set up, as many as 65% o
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