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So Milgram was the guy who showed that we will totally shock strangers with what we think are a hundred fifty volts of electricity because someone in a lab coat asked us to.ĮLAH FEDER: But not all of Milgram’s experiments were quite this disturbing.ĮLAH FEDER: Relatively speaking some of them were kind of warm and fuzzy! Like in the sixties, he got curious about how connected Americans were. > Wrong! 150 volts!ĪRCHIVAL AUDIO (SECOND MAN’S VOICE): Ahhh!ĪNNIE MINOFF: Yeah. And if you know him, it’s probably for some pretty memorable research that he did with a fake shock machine.ĪRCHIVAL AUDIO (MAN’S VOICE): Answer. Handwriting.ĪNNIE MINOFF: Stanley Milgram was a social scientist in the ‘60s and ‘70s. And you’re listening to Undiscovered, a podcast about the backstories of science.ĮLAH FEDER: > Oh my god, is this Stanley Milgram’s writing?ĪNNIE MINOFF: So a few months ago, Elah, you and I took this trip to Yale University to root around in the archives of Stanley Milgram.ĮLAH FEDER: We did, and we had to whisper, because you know, library.ĪNNIE MINOFF: > He had really. Also, if you are quoting from an Undiscovered episode, please check your text against the original audio as some errors may have occurred during transcription.ĪNNIE MINOFF: And I’m Annie. Important things like emotion and emphasis are often lost in transcripts.
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