Strengths

• Beavois et al

  • In a French TV game show contestants were paid to give (fake) electric shocks to other contestants (confederates) when ordered to by the host
  • 80% went to 460v to an apparently unconscious man - this supports milgrams study as the Ppts too displayed similar behaviours to Ppts in his study
• Hofling et al

  • Arranged for an unknown doctor to telephone 22 nurses and ask each of them (alone) to administer an overdose of asrote (a drug that was not on their ward list)
  • 95% of nurses (21/22) started to administer the drug. The nurses obeyed without questioning