... study which he claimed to the research participant was to assess the effects of punishment on learning. But the real aim of the study was to find out the extent to which people will obey, which he would do through a series of deceptions. His trial participant was a 31 year old female teacher called Gretchen Brantt who worked as a Medical Technician at the Yale Medical School. She had previously emigrated to the USA five years ago. He chose to act out the study at Yale University under conditions that would imply stark authority and he presumed that this would evoke the strongest moral imperatives against hurting others. He introduced a further participant, who was in fact an accomplice actor. The participants drew lots to determine who would be the learner and who would be the teacher. Brantt drew the teacher role, and the actor, the learner role. Brantt was unaware that ...

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