Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Re: Small World Redux Message-ID: <887@ames.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 17:32:28 EST Article-I.D.: ames.887 Posted: Thu Mar 21 17:32:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Mar-85 04:46:18 EST References: <542@ahutb.UUCP> <1308@ut-sally.UUCP> <210@zaphod.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 7 > Millikan is most famous for his experiment in torture: he showed that 9 > people out of 10 (or some such) would apply dangerous levels of voltage > to a subject (shill) when the experimenter and/or other shills applied > social pressure. This is the one quoted in intro psych classes. Small correction: the psychologist in question is named Stanley Milgram, I believe.