Episode 452
Coercion - It's easy to be bad
Do people feel a sense of responsibility when they're told to do something bad?
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
February 25, 20165m 50s
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Show Notes
Back in the 1960s, US researcher Stanley Milgram stunned the world with a study showing that members of the public were prepared to inflict potentially lethal electric shocks on supposedly innocent volunteers, if a lab-coated scientist ordered them to do so. In fact the recipients of the shocks were actually actors, who escaped unharmed. Milgram's experiments raised many ethical questions - not least about whether it was right to do them at all - and Patrick Haggard from UCL is now trying to find out to what extent people feel a sense of responsibility or control when they're ordered to do... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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