Read the article Meyer: “If’ Hitler Asked You To Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably” p.71
a) Briefly explain this experiment, focusing on the different roles and what happened.
b) Why didn’t Milgram ever take his experment to Germany, even though he had originally planned to? Explain
c) What forces are at work in social situations like this which lead the individual to do things that he or she might not normally do? Explain.
d) “What happened in Nazi Germany could never happen here in America, we are after all a democratic society, and Germany was undemocratic, even autocratic.” Respond to this statement.
