Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View" — the classic account of the Milgram experiment. 65% of ordinary people delivered what they believed were lethal electric shocks to a screaming victim, simply because a scientist told them to. Milgram explores the agentic state, the 18 experimental variations, binding factors, and what this reveals about human nature, the Holocaust, and the banality of evil. Covers 7 use cases: ① The Experiment — how it worked ("What was the Milgram experiment?") ② The Results — 65% to 450V ("What percentage of people went all the way?") ③ The Variations — what changed obedience ("What made people obey more or less?") ④ The Agentic State — the psychological shift ("Why do people stop feeling responsible?") ⑤ Binding Factors — why people couldn't stop ("Why didn't they just walk out?") ⑥ The Holocaust — implications for genocide ("What does this tell us about Nazi Germany?") ⑦ Resistance — how to defy unjust authority ("How can we learn to disobey?") Trigger when users say: "Milgram" "Stanley Milgram" "Obedience to Authority" "Milgram experiment" "shock experiment" "electric shock experiment" "Why do people obey authority" "agentic state" "binding factors" "banality of evil" "Eichmann" "Nazi Germany obedience" "65 percent 450 volts" "would I obey" "Milgram results" "how to resist authority" "psychology of obedience" "Milgram variations" "proximity and obedience" "peer defiance" "My Lai massacre" "following orders" "just following orders" "ordinary people evil" "situation vs personality" "15 volt increments" "shock generator" "Yale experiment" "teachers and learners" "experimenter authority" or mention: Stanley Milgram / Milgram / obedience / authority / shock generator / teacher / learner / experimenter / 15 volts / 450 volts / Slight Shock / Moderate Shock / Strong Shock / Very Strong Shock / Intense Shock / Extreme Intensity Shock / Danger Severe Shock / XXX / 65 percent / 65% / 40 psychiatrists / 1 percent prediction / agentic state / autonomous state / binding factors / adjustment of thought / strain / conflict / feedback / proximity / touch-proximity / remote condition / voice-feedback / experimenter presence / experimenter absence / uniform / institutional setting / Bridgeport / Yale / confederate / peer defiance / group pressure / ordinary people / banality of evil / Hannah Arendt / Eichmann / Nazi / Holocaust / genocide / My Lai / Vietnam / Abu Ghraib / Stanford Prison / Zimbardo / social psychology / Yale / 1961 / 1962 / 1963 / Sasha Milgram / France / obedience cycle / learning of obedience / resistance / defiance / individual conscience / responsibility / "I was just following orders" / "I had no choice" / "you must continue" / "the experiment requires that you continue" / "it is absolutely essential that you continue" / "you have no other choice" Also triggers when the user says they just installed this skill or doesn't know how to start — the AI MUST proactively present the Quick Start guide below.

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