Cialdini raamat
No one,
then, was prepared for the behavior pattern that the experiment actually produced.
How can we explain that alarming pattern? Perhaps, as some have argued, it
has to do with the fact that the subjects were all males who are known as a group
for their aggressive tendencies, or that the subjects didn't recognize the potential
harm that such high shock voltages could cause, or that the subjects were a freak-
ish collection of moral cretins who enjoyed the chance to inflict misery. There is
good evidence against each of these possibilities. First, a later experiment showed
that the subjects' sex was irrelevant to their willingness to give all the shocks to the
victim; female Teachers were just as likely to do so as were the males in Milgram's
initial study.
Another experiment investigated the explanation that subjects weren't aware of
the potential physical danger to the victim. In this experiment the victim was in-