During Stanley Milgram's famous obedience study, he discovered that subjects would willingly deliver a painful shock to a partner if an authority figure demanded it of them. Most disturbingly, two-thirds of subjects continued to shock the victim beyond levels they believed to be lethal.
Shortly after Milgram reported his findings, two skeptical researchers repeated the experiment with a live puppy to ensure that the subjects had not realized Milgram's ruse and simply played along. Much to their horror, twenty of the twenty-six test subjects shocked the puppy up to the maximum voltage
All of the subjects who refused to shock the puppy were men. Every woman in the experiment agreed to deliver the shocks.
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