A drinking study that involves fake electric shocks?

Question

I recently read a study where two groups of people were asked to deliver electric shocks to a stranger they couldn't see. One group had been drinking and the other hadn't. The group that had been drinking went up to a higher level of electricity (or so they thought)

Does anyone have any idea who first conducted this experiment or who has written about it? I can't find it again and have been on so many sites and read so many journals it will take me forever to find it again!

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This experiment or something similar has been around for years. It was also use to determine how supposedly normal people could inflict pain on others such as the way the Nazis did.

Answer 2

Stanley Milgram did a study years ago in which a participant who responded to a newspaper ad, and a confederate (a person helping with the study) came in and chose roles at random. (Both roles in the hat were the same, of course). The participant was always called the "Teacher" although he thought he and the other man were both subjects with equal chances. They went into two separate rooms and the part. The part. asked questions and when the confed. got them wrong, he used a switchboard showing different levels of electric shocks ranging from mild to DANGER, EXTREME, etc. The out of sight Confederate began to scream and call for help and say he wanted out. Finally, he went silent. It was all scripted and of course, there was no shock. They found that the vast majority of people kept going even when the confed. was in obvious distress. The guy in the lab coat simply said "You must go on," and he did.
The test was done to find out how groups like the Nazis and the KKK are able to make people do horrible things because an authority figure told them to do so.
I don't know when a drinking version was done, but it couldn't have been recently: This kind of study is not legal anymore, due to the fact that it causes extreme stress for the participant, during and after. Some of Milgram's subjects committed suicide, I believe. It's just too horrible a thing to learn about yourself.

Answer 3

milgram did an experiment where people were asked to shock another person although it was fake and the participant giving the shocks didnt know, it didnt invovle drinking, actually ive never known about one like that.