Do You Think People Will Deliver the Highest Voltage?

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There was a videot i mean, audiotype of the other supposed participant. And the question was really, how far will the individual go in their shocks? Rt, in fact, they actually got alittle sample shock at the beginning of the experiment so they wouldn't know exactly how much it hurt. 76% of people with what's the 65 % went all the way up to three hundredt to note, to 454 hundred.

After discussing some listener feedback about the movie Swingers, Tamler and David talk about two classic experiments in social psychology: the Milgram Experiments and the Zimbardo Prison experiment. They discuss the power of the situation, its influence on recent philosophy, and whether there is room given the evidence to believe in moral character and virtue. Also, Tamler admits to his former struggles with hard core street drugs, and Dave ponders which prison gang would be most accepting if he had to serve hard time.

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"Swingers," Directed by Jon Favreau [metacritic.com]

The Milgram Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Video clip of a replication of the Milgram Experiment [youtube.com]

The Stanford Prison Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Short video on Stanford Prison Experiment [youtube.com]

Asch Conformity Experiment [youtube.com]

Jon Doris "Lack of Character" [amazon.com]

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