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- In one experiment, a researcher told participants to give increasingly stronger shocks to another person as part of a study on learning.
- In reality, the experiment had nothing to do with learning.
- The "learner" supposedly receiving the shocks was actually a confederate who never really received any punishment.
- Some 65 percent of the participants eventually delivered "shocks" at the highest setting on the shock generator, 450 volts.
- Participants said they obeyed primarily because they believed that the experimenter would be responsible for any ill effects.
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