In this chapter, they revisit the Milgram Shock Experiment and discuss what it tells us about the nature of evil. They talk about their fascination with the study and how it is commonly encountered by psychology students. They then explain how the study was designed, with Stanley Milgram exploring people's willingness to follow orders.
What makes people do evil things?
Psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to understand if people could be led to do awful things, just by being told to do them.
The experiment he would devise to test this would become one of the most infamous examples of unethical studies in the field of psychology: The Milgram Shock Experiment.
But Professor Alex Haslam says that's not the full picture… And the findings are misunderstood.