Jack, a middle-aged man, works for an international company. His boss persuades him to bribe a government official to get an approval for a project. Jack agrees but gets caught in the act. Identify the classical obedience study that justifies Jack's behavior in this scenario?

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Solomon Powell

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10 November, 20:26

Jack, a middle-aged man, works for an international company. His boss persuades him to bribe a government official to get an approval for a project. Jack agrees but gets caught in the act. Identify the classical obedience study that justifies Jack's behavior in this scenario?

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Dean Brock · Answer 1

The Milgram experiment

Explanation:

The Milgram experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram to observe the obedience of participants who were asked to give another participant the order to wrongfully answer questions. The participants were given high level of electrical shocks so that they would obey the authority figure.

The experiment proved that "normal" people would usually abuse of the power given to them as authority figures and that the other participant (the shocked one) will eventually follow the orders given to them by the authority figure even though it may compromise their moral values.