... authority was particularly high in certain societies. He hoped the findings of his research would aid his understanding as to why thousands co-operated with the mass extermination that could only have been possible with the support of the majority. Milgram's research found that, when under the close supervision of an authority figure, obedience to authority was very high and 65% of all the participants followed the orders of the authority unquestioningly, suggesting that people are very obedient to authority. While planning for the experiment Milgram hypothesised that very few people would demonstrate complete obedience to authority and that most would stop at around half way, thus not demonstrating a 'German-esque' type of personality. He then planned to take the experiment to Germany and compare the results, predicting a much higher level of German obedience; however, this was never needed as his results found that obedience in the American culture ...

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