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In all likelihood, participants in Milgram's obedience experiments (conducted in the 1960s and 1970s) were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner
 
  because they were concerned that the experimenter would be disappointed or perhaps even angry with them. Such concerns reflect the power of ________ to induce obedience to authority.
  a. informational social influence
  b. the reciprocity norm
  c. mindless conformity
  d. normative social influence

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Results from Milgram's study, in which participants were led to believe that they were being asked to shock another person at lethal levels, suggest that people
 
  a. are generally rather sadistic.
  b. have strong aggressive impulses, as Freud suggested.
  c. will obey authority, even when perhaps they shouldn't.
  d. are willing to do just about anything for a buck.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C


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