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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 2, 205-209 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014616728062003

Attributing Evil to the Subject, Not the Situation

Student Reaction to Milgram's Film on Obedience

Martin A. Safer

The Catholic University of America

After seeing Milgram's Obedience film, students apparently conclude that people are evil and would harm a stranger if given the opportunity. Students overestimate the shock level which subjects deliver when uncoerced by the experimenter.


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