Episode 2
The Experiment
Obedience has a price.
You volunteer for a psychology study. The instructions seem simple. The authority figure seems trustworthy. But the experiment is not what it appears to be — and every choice you make reveals how far you will go when someone in a white coat tells you to continue.
Psychology Basis
Based on Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments (1963), in which 65% of participants administered what they believed were lethal electric shocks to a stranger simply because an authority figure told them to continue. Also draws on Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment (1971), which showed how assigned roles can corrupt ordinary people's behavior within days. "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." — Stanley Milgram