In the Milgram study, ordinary people gave what they thought...

In the Milgram study, ordinary people gave what they thought were painful and even potentially lethal electric shocks to strangers. They did so because of: Their drive to seek reward and avoid punishment. Their personality traits. Their innate evil. The social situation.

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00:01 Let's talk about the milgram study.

00:02 This was a big moment in psychology.

00:07 If you remember, the milgram study is in social psychology.

00:10 So we're looking at how people interact with other people.

00:16 If you remember the milgram study, basically what would happen is there was a wall and there was one person on this side of the wall who was supposed to be sitting there and they were supposed to be learning and memorizing things.

00:35 So this person was the learner.

00:40 On this person, on this side of the wall, there was somebody who is going to be the reinforcer.

00:49 So this person was supposed to be helping the other person learn by administering a certain amount of shock to this person if they got the answer incorrect.

01:00 Now what we know now is that the person on this side of the wall was a confederate.

01:08 They were a part of the study.

01:10 They weren't actually getting shocked at all.

01:12 This was a fake shock.

01:13 They were just actors.

01:16 The person on this side of the wall, however, they didn't know they were the actual participant in the study.

01:25 Also, it's important to know that the participant couldn't actually see the person through the wall.

01:31 They could just hear them and knew that they were there...

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In the Milgram study, ordinary people gave what they thought were painful and even potentially lethal electric shocks to strangers. They did so because of: Their drive to seek reward and avoid punishment. Their personality traits. Their innate evil. The social situation.

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