Summary
In this chapter, the author discusses the Milgram experiments. Those are the ones with the simulated electric shocks administered to an actor.
Discussion
The critics are correct; the experiment was certainly not valid. The problem with the experiment was that one of his results was valid: actions are context dependent. In the context of a having knowingly signed up for a study of some sort, the experimentee knew that no one was going to be harmed by it; an experiment that actually, intentionally harmed human beings being run is inconceivable.
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