Have you read Opening Skinner's Box? The author went and found some of the people who participated in the Milgram experiments and talked to them well after the fact. Some of the ones who followed the order to continue shocking the "subject" went on to be very different people, consciously questioning authority and their treatment of others.
Similarly, another experiment in the diffusion of responsibility and discussion of that phenomenon seems to have an effect on people who know about it. If you know that in an emergency, people tend to hesitate and look for a leader instead of acting, you're less likely to hesitate and more likely to act. Because you know the instinctual response groups have.
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Date: 2009-11-01 08:10 pm (UTC)Similarly, another experiment in the diffusion of responsibility and discussion of that phenomenon seems to have an effect on people who know about it. If you know that in an emergency, people tend to hesitate and look for a leader instead of acting, you're less likely to hesitate and more likely to act. Because you know the instinctual response groups have.