... against their own morals. These 18 experiments that Milgrim did were all variations of his first one, as he wanted to show how peoples' levels of obedience changed as the circumstances they were in did. This experiments proved to be valid, as within all 18 the number of participants who went all the way up to 450 volts varied from roughly 2 or 3% to 91%. This proved that there are factors that can affect obedience. Milgrim's main finding, and other studies since was that people tend to obey those who appear to have authority. These findings support Milgrim's agency theory (1974), which states that we obey others in order to keep our society stable. This would apply to his experiment, when the participant may have obeyed the experimenter in the lab coat partially just so he kept him happy. He believes that in our agentic state we give up ...

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