In The Milgram Experiment, Mood replicates the work of Dr. Stanley Milgram, a Yale college professor who set up a psychological experiment to see if a normal person, under the supervision of an authority figure, would perform inhumane acts of cruelty on another human being. His hypothesis was that, beneath the façade of societal chivalry, there beats a savage heart in all of us. To prove this, Dr. Milgram designed an experiment involving two individuals – one deemed a "teacher" and the other the "student" – who were told that the experiment was to see if mild physical discomfort would improve behavioral results. To wit, if the student gave a wrong answer on a memory game quiz, he would be shocked. In the Yale case, the student was an actor pretending to be shocked. The real experiment was to see if the teacher, if absolved of guilt, would push a button that caused the student pain.
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