findings of Milgram

• -Milgram predicted that less than 3% of participants

  would give the maximum 450 volt shock
• • Common responses shown by the participants
  • included:
  • Sweating
  • -Trembling
  • Stuttering
  • Groaning
• • Volt shock% of pts who gave that shock
  • 300 (Extreme 100 Intensity Shock)
  • 100%
• • Volt shock% of pts who gave that shock
  • 450 (XXX)
  • 65%
• • Digging fingernails in their flesh
• • Nervous laughter
• • Pleading for the experiment to stop
• • Three participants had violent convulsive seizures, and the experiment had to be stopped