Command and Obedience: Subjects suddenly became violent towards animals

2023-07-31 12:51:11

Who would be willing to electrocute someone for life if they got a school assignment wrong? Most people will probably answer this question intuitively with “No”. But are they correct? And what if it wasn’t people who were harmed, but small animals or insects? Psychologists from the Universities of Regensburg, Göttingen and Würzburg have now tried to clarify this conflict with the help of an experiment. It was about the deliberate destruction of beetles.