Obedience and Traditional Jewish Texts: The Milgram Experiment
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This lesson
explores questions of obedience, and why people may participate in
something against their conscience or harm others even against their
will. It centers on an experiment about obedience performed by Stanley
Milgram at Yale in the 1960's, described in Holocaust and Human Behavior.
