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by janalsncm 81 days ago
> Interviewing the original participants―many of whom remain haunted to this day about what they did―and delving deep into Milgram's personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram.

Just reading the Amazon summary, I feel like there’s a contradiction. If subjects were just trying to get it over with, yes it invalidates the study but the only troubling conclusion is that the study wasn’t scrutinized more closely.

I also don’t see why they would be “haunted” by what effectively amounts to a chore to get their $20 participation check.

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She never said that none of the participants believed it was real.