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In his controversial study in which he led subjects to believe they were delivering painful shocks to innocent people, what social phenomenon was stanley milgram trying to understand?

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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist at Yale University, and he was trying to understand the social phenomenon that what is the process in which the normal individuals are compelled and they are compelled to hurt others and they do that, they hurt other people just because they are said to do that.
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