You and I are alike, so I will hold back – The effect of directed empathy on the behavior of participants of Stanley Milgram's obedience paradigm

Experiments on obedience to authority conducted under the paradigm developed by Milgram have demonstrated that empathy plays either no or a very limited role in determining participants' behaviors. This study proposes that this occurs due to participants empathizing with both “learners” and exp...

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Main Authors: Tomasz Grzyb, Dariusz Dolinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-04-01
Series:Acta Psychologica
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823000355