... was asked to draw a slip of paper from a hat to determine which role they played. The draw was rigged so the naïve subject was always the teacher. The learner was strapped to an 'electric chair' appliance and electrodes attached to his arms, and cream was applied to avoid blisters and burns. He was then told that although the shocks may be extremely painful they cause no permanent tissue damage. The teacher was the taken next door to administer the punishment. The task of the teacher was to read a set of word pairs to the learner, and then read the first word of each pair together with four alternatives. The learner then indicated which of the four was correct by pressing one of four switches. The subject would then have to give a shock to each time the learner gave a wrong answer and to increase the intensity by ...

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