Facts about Obedience Paradigm
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A key ethical concern of the obedience paradigm was the psychological distress experienced by participants, which contributed to stricter modern research ethics standards.
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Replications of the obedience paradigm across different countries consistently found high rates of compliance, suggesting the results were not unique to American culture.
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Milgram's obedience paradigm revealed that situational factors, rather than individual personality traits, were the primary driver of destructive obedience.
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In Milgram's obedience paradigm experiments, a majority of participants continued administering shocks up to the maximum level despite the apparent distress of the learner.
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The obedience paradigm was developed by Stanley Milgram to study how ordinary people comply with authority figures even when instructed to harm others.