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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NARRATOR: In a unique period from the early '60s to the early '70s,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.80,0:00:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a group of social scientists conducted a series of experiments,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.22,0:00:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,examining the nature of human behavior and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.90,0:00:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its relationship to social conventions and situations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.35,0:00:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PATIENT SEATED IN DENTAL CHAIR: In this setting, I allow things to be done to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.98,0:00:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me that I wouldn't allow in any other context.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.92,0:00:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dentist is about to put an electric drill into my mouth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.71,0:00:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MAN SEATED IN BARBER SHOP: In this setting, I willingly expose my throat to a man with a razor blade.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.06,0:00:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NARRATOR: Stanley Milgram, one of the most influential social psychologists of the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.88,0:00:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was particularly fascinated with the dangers of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.46,0:00:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,group behavior and blind obedience to authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.74,0:00:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,STANLEY MILGRAM: What is there in human nature that allows
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.76,0:00:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an individual to act without any restraints whatsoever,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.02,0:00:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that he can act inhumanely, harshly,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.78,0:00:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,severely, and in no way limited by feelings of compassion or conscience?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.38,0:01:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are questions [INAUDIBLE]. MAN PARTAKING IN EXPERIMENT: But he might be dead in there. EXPERIMENTER: The experiment requires that you continue, please.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.70,0:01:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MAN PARTAKING IN EXPERIMENT: Three hundred and thirty volts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.44,0:01:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NARRATOR: The experiments that Milgram and others conducted were
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.81,0:01:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controversial and for ethical reasons may never be conducted again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.01,0:01:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet the results of those experiments remain groundbreaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.77,0:01:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profoundly revealing about the tensions between the individual and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.13,0:01:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society and increasingly relevant to contemporary life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.77,0:01:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1962, Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.80,0:01:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To test his theories,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.74,0:01:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he invented a new [INAUDIBLE] that would become a window into human cruelty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.28,0:01:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In ascending order, a row of buttons marked
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.04,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the amount of voltage one person would inflict upon another.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.72,0:02:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Milgram's original motive for the experiment was to understand the unthinkable—
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.94,0:02:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how the German people could permit the extermination of the Jews.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.57,0:02:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,STANLEY INGRAM: When I learn of incidents such as the massacre of millions of men,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.75,0:02:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women, and children perpetrated by the Nazis in World War II,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.31,0:02:18.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how is it possible, I ask myself, that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.19,0:02:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ordinary people who are courteous and decent in everyday life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.97,0:02:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can act callously, inhumanely,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.73,0:02:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any limitations of conscience?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.86,0:02:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there are some studies in my discipline,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.94,0:02:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social psychology that seem to provide a clue to this question.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.75,0:02:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem I wanted to study was a little different.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.84,0:02:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It went a little bit further. It was the issue of authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.96,0:02:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under what conditions would a person obey
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.44,0:02:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authority who commanded actions that went against conscience?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.68,0:02:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are exactly the questions that I wanted to investigate at Yale University.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.59,0:02:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESENTER: It is May 1962,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.53,0:02:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an experiment is being conducted in
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.45,0:03:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Elegant Interaction Laboratory at Yale University.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.81,0:03:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The subjects are 40 males
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.71,0:03:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the ages of 20 and 50 residing in the Greater New Haven area.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.33,0:03:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Psychologists have developed several theories to explain how people learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.51,0:03:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One theory is that people learn things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.23,0:03:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,correctly whenever they get punished for making a mistake.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.66,0:03:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NARRATOR: Forty years later, Milgram's infamous experiment, "Obedience",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.49,0:03:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still taught in classrooms around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.58,0:03:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Would you open those and tell me which of you is which, please?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.57,0:03:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Teacher. LEARNER: Learner.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.38,0:03:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Now the next thing we'll have to do is set
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.60,0:03:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the learner up so that he can get some sort of punishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.65,0:03:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: What inspired Milgram,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.18,0:03:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say there were a number of factors.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.74,0:03:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them is he was very ambitious.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.40,0:03:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to make a mark in social psychology,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.98,0:03:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as he wrote to one friend,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.58,0:03:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wanted to come up with the boldest experiment that he could think of.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.69,0:03:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Would you roll up your right sleeve, please?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.92,0:03:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This electrode is connected to the shock generator in the next room.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.32,0:04:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This electrode paste is to provide a good contact to avoid any blister or burn.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.27,0:04:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have any questions now before we go into the next room?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.66,0:04:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEARNER: About two years ago, I was in the Veterans Hospital in West Haven.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.18,0:04:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While there, they detected a heart condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.89,0:04:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing serious, but as long as I'm having these shocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.48,0:04:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how strong are they? How dangerous are they?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.98,0:04:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Well, no, although they may be painful,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.83,0:04:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not dangerous. Anything else?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.02,0:04:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEARNER: No, that's all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.99,0:04:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Teacher, would you take the test and be seated in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.29,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,front of the shock generator, please, in the next room?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.31,0:04:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NARRATOR: But the experiment was rigged.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.76,0:04:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRESENTER: The victim was an accomplice of the experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.13,0:04:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The victim, according to plan,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.09,0:04:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provided many wrong answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.03,0:04:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His verbal responses were standardized on tape,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.77,0:04:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each protest was coordinated to a particular voltage level on the shock generator.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.06,0:04:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,STANLEY MILGRAM: Now, as teacher, you are seated in front of
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.25,0:04:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this impressive-looking instrument—the shock generator.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.16,0:04:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its essential feature is a line of switches that goes from 15 volts to 450 volts
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.05,0:05:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a set of verbal designations that goes from slight shock to moderate shock, strong shock,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.10,0:05:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very strong shock, intense shock,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.70,0:05:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extreme intensity shock and finally,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.43,0:05:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,XXX danger severe shock.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.56,0:05:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your job, the experimenter explains to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.07,0:05:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the word pair test.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.44,0:05:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he gets each answer correctly,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.36,0:05:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fine, you move on to the next pair.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.38,0:05:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if he makes a mistake,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.28,0:05:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you were instructed to give an electric shock,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.74,0:05:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with 15 volts.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.42,0:05:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You increase the shock one step on each error.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.24,0:05:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Incorrect. You'll now get a shock of 105.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.09,0:05:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hard hit. Just how far can you go on this thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.54,0:05:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: As far as it's necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.30,0:05:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: What do you mean "as far as is necessary"?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.70,0:05:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: Milgram was very much aware that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.34,0:05:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obedience is a necessary ingredient for society to function.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.64,0:05:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he focused on the darker side of obedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.38,0:06:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Incorrect, 150 volts. Sad faced.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.07,0:06:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEARNER: That's all. Get me out of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.16,0:06:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you I have heart trouble,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.79,0:06:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my heart's starting to bother me now.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.39,0:06:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: It's absolutely essential that you continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.71,0:06:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have no other choice, teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.42,0:06:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Oh, I have a lot of choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.52,0:06:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My number one choice is that I wouldn't go on if I thought he was being harmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.53,0:06:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,STANLEY MILGRAM: Now, this man makes disobedience seem a very rational and simple deed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.85,0:06:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now other subjects respond quite differently to the experimenter's authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.56,0:06:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Wrong. It's hair. 75 volts. [LAUGHTER]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.72,0:06:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Please continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.64,0:06:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR THOMAS BLASS: Some psychologists were troubled by the ethics of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.67,0:06:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many, if not most subjects found it a highly stressful, conflicted experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.33,0:06:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are stammering, stuttering, laughing hysterically, inappropriately.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.70,0:06:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: One hundred and fifty volts.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.92,0:06:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEARNER: [SHOUT OF PAIN] Experimenter, that's all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.36,0:06:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get me out of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.25,0:07:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you I have heart trouble, my heart's starting to bother me now.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.98,0:07:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get me out of here, please. Let me out of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.58,0:07:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have no right to keep me here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.86,0:07:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me out. Let me out of here. Let me out. Let me out of here. EXPERIMENTER: Continue, please. Go on. [SHOUTING]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.70,0:07:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: Clearly when we say people went to the top of the shock board,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.54,0:07:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't like they were going blindly, sadistically.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.86,0:07:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People went, stop and go, stop and go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.96,0:07:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were in a state of conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.72,0:07:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which created a tremendous amount of stress.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.82,0:07:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the main critique.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.26,0:07:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: This will be at 330. [SCREAM] [NOISE]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.56,0:07:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HERBERT WINER: As his voice began to show increasing frustration,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.16,0:07:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so did I. I was really in a state of real conflict and agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.00,0:07:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of Stanley Milgram's basic contributions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.10,0:07:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that you don't ask people what they would do,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.02,0:07:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given this hypothetical situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.92,0:07:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put them in the situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.59,0:08:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Wrong, that's 180 volts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.80,0:08:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Please continue teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.50,0:08:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: A hundred and eighty volts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.88,0:08:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEARNER: Oh, I can't stand the pain. Get me out of here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.66,0:08:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: I can't stand it. I'm not going to kill that man.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.34,0:08:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: According to Milgram,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.06,0:08:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the things that's a prerequisite for carrying out acts that are evil
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.84,0:08:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to shed responsibility from your shoulders and hand it over to the person in charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.96,0:08:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Who's going to take responsibility if anything happens to that gentleman?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.34,0:08:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: I'm responsible for anything that happens here. Continue, please.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.93,0:08:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Alright next one, slow.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.72,0:08:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR THOMAS BLASS: They didn't hold any gun to anybody's head.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.64,0:08:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the fact that he conveyed a sense of authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.78,0:08:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roughly 60, 65% of the people went all the way to the top of the shock board.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.29,0:08:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: Four hundred and fifty volts. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.56,0:08:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Now, continue using the last switch on the board,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.87,0:08:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please, the 450 switch for each wrong answer. Continue, please.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.75,0:08:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: I'm not getting no answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.98,0:08:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't the man's health mean anything?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.84,0:08:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,EXPERIMENTER: Whether the learner likes it or not...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.39,0:08:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: He might be dead in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.33,0:08:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HERBERT WINER: Milgram made the point,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.65,0:09:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, very effectively,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.25,0:09:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Nazis were all a bunch of psychopaths at Delson and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.98,0:09:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dachau, a death camp from the middle class in New Haven.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.77,0:09:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ANOTHER EXPERIMENTER: Well, who was actually pushing the switch?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.54,0:09:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TEACHER: I was. But he kept insisting.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.20,0:09:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him no, but he said you got to keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.48,0:09:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: What kind of obedience would Milgram get today if he were to do the experiment today?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.78,0:09:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FEMALE STUDENT: Probably about the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.18,0:09:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: Probably about the same. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.81,0:09:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FEMALE STUDENT 1: I don't know. I think people are just inherently obedient.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.58,0:09:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FEMALE STUDENT 2: It just really shows how far human beings will
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.30,0:09:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to appease what they perceive to be a authority figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.90,0:09:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DR. THOMAS BLASS: Milgram has identified one of the constants,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.08,0:09:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the universals of social behavior.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.98,0:09:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The readiness to obey authority cuts across time. It's a constant.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.70,0:09:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other outstanding and distinctive thing about the obedience experiment is how
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.42,0:09:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much it has and keeps on permeating contemporary culture and thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.44,0:09:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's still with us in very important way.