Question

When Milgram set up a situation where there were conflicting authority figures, one urging participants to continue hurting another person and one urging participants to stop hurting another person, which of the following happened?

a. Most participants obeyed the authority who urged participants to continue the experiment
b. Participants "split the difference" between the conflicting authorities with half going all the way to 450 volts.
c. Participants chose to obey the experimenter who urged stopping the experiment
d. Obedience levels were high as they were in the "baseline" experiment

Answer 1

Participants in Milgram's experiment obeyed the authority who urged them to continue the experiment, administering what appeared to be lethal electrical shocks to another person.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Milgram's experiment where there were conflicting authority figures, most participants obeyed the authority who urged participants to continue the experiment. They were willing to administer what appeared to be lethal electrical shocks to another person because they were told to do so by an authority figure. Approximately two-thirds of the participants continued to administer shocks to an unresponsive learner, even when the learner cried out for help and complained of heart trouble. This demonstrated the extent to which people obey authority, even when it contradicts their conscience.