The following short NY Times article on an upcoming reanalysis of Milgram's data to be published in American Psychologist should be of interest to many of you. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01mind.html?8dpc# <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/research/01mind.html?8dpc> >From the article: The participants usually began with what they thought were 15-volt shocks, and worked upward in 15-volt increments, as the experimenter instructed. At 75 volts, the "learner" in the next room began grunting in apparent pain. At 150 volts he cried out: "Stop, let me out! I don't want to do this anymore." At that point about a third of the participants refused to continue, found Dominic Packer, author of the new paper. "The previous expressions of pain were insufficient," Dr. Packer said. But at 150 volts, he continued, those who disobeyed decided that the learner's right to stop trumped the experimenter's right to continue. Before the end of the experiments, at 450 volts, an additional 10 to 15 percent had dropped out. This appreciation of another's right is crucial in interrogation, Dr. Packer suggests. When prisoners' rights are ambiguous, inhumane treatment can follow. Milgram's work, in short, makes a statement about the importance of human rights, as well as obedience. Miguel
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