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Basic instincts;, ABC News, Part 5

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Basic instincts;, ABC News, Part 5

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eng

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videorecording

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Basic instincts;

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86222726

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Originally produced as a segment of Primetime live broadcast on January 3, 2007

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ABC News

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Primetime Live

Summary

The Milgram Experiment (instituted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961) was a series of studies intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something which may conflict with the participant's personal conscience. "Primetime" wanted to know if ordinary people today would still follow orders even if they believed their actions were causing someone else pain. After contacting psychologist Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, ABC News was able to replicate Milgram's study in a modified way

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live action

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