The subjects were assigned the role “teacher” and the learner was an actor, trained and prepared for the role. However, the subjects had the impression that the victim and himself were of the same status in the trial and that it was not decided in advance which one would get which role. The subjects were told that they, as the teacher, were going to train the learner to remember words in a specific order, and whenever the learner said an incorrect word, the teacher would be instructed to administer progressively stronger electric shocks to the
The subjects were assigned the role “teacher” and the learner was an actor, trained and prepared for the role. However, the subjects had the impression that the victim and himself were of the same status in the trial and that it was not decided in advance which one would get which role. The subjects were told that they, as the teacher, were going to train the learner to remember words in a specific order, and whenever the learner said an incorrect word, the teacher would be instructed to administer progressively stronger electric shocks to the