Sentences with phrase «administered painful electric shocks»
He put a «teacher» in one room in front of a console that supposedly administered painful electric shocks, and a «learner» in the other, bound to a chair and hooked up to wires.
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Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.