Ghosts of Abu Ghraib2007

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In 1961, and experiment was conducted by Dr. Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University. [Fade]

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Participants responded to a newspaper advertisement. [Fade]

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The purpose of their 'obedience study" was to observe an individual's willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. [Fade]

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The participants did not know that the "victim" was an actor and that the shocks were not real. [Fade]

Research Subject #2:
...who's going to take responsibility if anything happens to him?

Researcher:
I'm going to take responsibility. Please continue.

Victim:
[screams off camera]

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All of the subjects administered shocks. The majority did so at the maximum level: 450 volts.