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Weapons of Influence #5: Authority (Ep. 197)

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Is There a Difference Between the Teacher and the Learner?

In the classic experiment where you've got a two people, and one of them's going to be the learner, they're supposed to memorize words. And then the teacher is the second person he gets, and he tells the teacher, every time the learner says the wrong answer, i want you to shock them in increasingly terrible shocks. Almost everyone went all the way to the maximum voltage, even as the learner kept screaming,. simply because the researcher told him to continue. Most of the people started breaking down as they were torturing the learner for their things.

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