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For anyone curious, as the description says, it's based on the Milgram experiment. Developed by psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961, participants were told they were assisting as the "teacher", giving electrical shocks to the subject- the "student". It was suppose to observe the effects of punishment on learning and memory. Both teacher and student were volunteers that drew slips of paper for their roles. The teacher was given a small shock for firsthand experience, the student was strapped to the electric chair, and then they were separated, unable to see each other, but still able to hear each other. Then the experiment would begin pretty much as the game does, except it was the teacher also reading off the words, the researcher just observed. Each wrong answer increased the shock by 15 volts. The experiment ended when the student was shocked at 450 volts 3 times (fatal shocks), or if the teacher refused to continue after being prodded to continue by the researcher 4 times (each time the response being more strict).
However, the whole thing was a lie. The real experiment was observing how people responded to authority and their commands, even when they conflicted with their consciousness and morals. The "teacher" was actually the subject, not the student. The "student" was an actor, who purposefully got answers wrong and acted increasingly in pain (until the last shock where they went silent) with the increase of voltage. The paper slips that they drew their roles from was rigged, they both read teacher. The researcher was purposefully dressed in a lab coat to give a greater sense of authority. Aside from the small shock the "teacher" first received, no actual electrical shocks were given, they had pre-recorded sounds go off to sound like the increasing shocks. Everything was scripted.
It was done to test if various Nazis could or should be held responsible for the horrific acts they took part in, because many were just following orders. Many experts in psychological fields were asked before the experiment for predictions, everyone believed that only a small percent (average of 1.2%) would continue to the 450 volt shocks. Milgram himself believed that obedience was a German trait, the original experiment in America was done for comparison for a later study in Germany.
65% gave what they believed was 450 volts 3 final times. All subjects gave over 300 volts, all subjects paused to question it at least once, and all subjects showed signs of stress, discomfort, and distress. According to notes from the experiment, none of the subjects who refused to continue actually spoke out against the experiment, went to check on the "student", or even left the room without getting permission. The second study in Germany was not done, but several other experiments globally, and with and without variations produced similar results.
How this should or can be interpreted, if it is applicable to situations and events like the Holocaust, or if the experiment itself was ethical are still debated, but this is far to long already for a comment on a game.
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