In the famous 1961 "Milgram Experiment", test subjects were told by an authority figure to torture a fellow test subject. Two thirds of those told to do so, did so even after the other person pleaded them to stop.
"Primetime" and SCU recreated the "Milgram Experiment", using women as the test subjects. Would the gentler gender be more sympathetic ?
The Science of Evil - and video of experiment
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416&page=1
If you were told to torture someone by your boss, employer, superior, or by your government, would you ?
2007-01-03
14:32:50
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Joe_Pardy
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