After World War 2, American psychologists set out to prove that Americans would never fall for Nazi crap the way Germans did. They set up a clever experiment where a volunteer would be asked to push a button delivering a fatal shock to his fellow man.

Their prediction? 0.01% of men would push the button. 

The result? 65% of men did it. 

This sent shockwaves through the field of psychology. In our first episode of a special series looking back at landmark experiments, we cover the Milgram obedience to authority experiment.

You'll learn:

• The conditions required for two thirds of people to become murderers
• How many people it takes to convince you what you're seeing isn't real
• Why more bystanders actually decreases the odds of anyone helping
• The factor that dropped obedience from 65% to 10%

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