Milgram wanted to know how far conformity would extend: Would individuals conform to a group even if it went against their own moral judgement?

Many subjects told experimenters afterwards, “I wouldn’t have done it by myself. I was just doing what I was told.”

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When your mother suggested you’d jump off a bridge if your friends were doing it, she had scientific evidence to back her up.

In fact, Solomon Asch showed that conformity is real and that given the right circumstances, subjects would literally believe the crowd over the evidence of their own eyes.

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Muzafer Sherif was a social psychologist who believed that given a common goal, all individuals could work together in peace.

To provide evidence for his theory, he took a group of 11-year-old boys to an overnight camp and made them sworn enemies. Then he and his team would flip the script by starting a forest fire so the boys could come together and extinguish the blaze.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Wendell Johnson was an American Psychologist whose childhood stuttering became the foundation for his later research. He believed that stuttering begins “not in the child's mouth but in the parent's ear.''

To provide evidence of his theory he needed to demonstrate that anyone, even a child with typical speech, could be trained to stutter.

You see where this is going, right?

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If a guy with a metronome can make you salivate, is free will an illusion?

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