There is an interesting discussion about the Milgram experiment on the Nudge blog.
"In the experiment, the subjects administered what they assumed was an electric shock to a person in an adjacent room after the person gave a wrong answer to a memory test... more than half administered the maximum 450-volt shock, which, in case they were not too familiar with the dangers of electricity, went beyond the “Danger: Very Severe Shock” label on the machine they used".
Interestingly, the Nudge blog links to YouTube footage of these experiments, which would be a useful teaching tool.
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