In Milgram's (1963) study of obedience, subjects
a. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to a stranger.
b. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice.
c. indicated which of three lines matched a "standard line" in length.
d. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simple questions.
A
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
You should not accept as a scientific statement or hypothesis any statement or
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