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Experimenter
UNITED STATES · 2015

Experimenter

Michael Almereyda
obedience to authority moral responsibility ethics in science human nature psychological experimentation
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Synopsis

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve b

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