Not exact matches
Last year, he led a study that
found people's capacity to pay attention improved when they wore a
white lab coat.
According to police, they
found the murdered female doctor and the dead gunman, who was wearing a
white lab coat, on the 17th floor.
To
find out, he set up an experiment in which subjects were instructed by men in
white lab coats to deliver increasingly intense electric shocks to victims who screamed in pain, complained of a heart condition, and begged for the experiment to be halted.
What Milgram really wanted to
find out was just how much pain people will willingly inflict if ordered to do so by an authority figure wearing a
white lab coat.
After this visit — the last in a long line of scary, unpleasant experiences that had left him understandably wary of anyone in scrubs or a
white lab coat — his owner resolved to
find a better way to do things.