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Verified for the 2026 examโขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
Definition
A series of psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.