experiment 13

• In Experiment 13, an ordinary man gives orders, impacting the power relations on obedience.
• The experiment tests the role of authority and status on obedience.
• In Experiment 13, the experimenter role is played by an ordinary man, rather than an actual experimenter in a lab coat.
• The procedure in Experiment 13 involves three people entering the lab: two confederates and a naïve participant.
• The two confederates in Experiment 13 get the roles of experimenter and learner, while the naïve participant gets the role of teacher.
• During the procedure in Experiment 13, the learner is strapped into an electric chair.
• The level of shocks in Experiment 13 is not told to the participants, meaning they could give any level.
• The experimenter in Experiment 13 gets a phone call and leaves the room, instructing the teacher to continue getting the learner to perfect the word pairs until perfection.
• The results of Experiment 13 show that the obedience levels fall from 65% to 20%.
• In Experiment 13, 80% of the participants stop before the maximum level of shock.