Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!gateway!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: TREADWAY@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Milgram's 37 Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 02:56:00 GMT Article-I.D.: MPS.D8F746ABC02028C2 Sender: Love-Hounds-request@ims.alaska.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu Path: ohstpy!treadway From: treadway@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Milgram's 37 Message-ID: <9843.2804e9a0@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 22:56:32 EDT News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to rec.music.gaffa Lines: 7 About Milgram's 37: It is actually a home-made alcoholic beverage. Just kidding...Honestly, Milgram was an experimental psychologists that persuaded 37 subjects to painfully, even lethally, shock strangers - an electric chair type set-up. He was basically studying the obedience of humans to authority figures. Needless to say, this experiment was the basis of many ethics in research discussions. Have fun, Joel