Used standardised and systematic procedures, which allowed cause and effect to be established.
Supporting evidence- proximity
Slater (2006)- found that when replicating Milgram's study in VR, when participants could not see the learner they were more likely to obey.
Contradictory evidence
Mandel (2008)- he found the situational variables did not apply to real life situations such as WW2 and the Holocaust and also lack ecological validity.
Other explanations
There are other explanations to explaining obedience such as the authoritarian personality.
