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Inspiration for Milgram's Obedience Study

Stanley Milgram's renowned research on obedience to authority was partially inspired by his secondhand informal observation of accused Nazi war criminals on trial. Hearing their claims that they were merely following orders led him to formulate research ideas about whether ordinary people would perform immoral acts when directed by an authority figure.

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