Much as the Imperial officer falls into obedience to the authority of pressure, this relates the studies conducted by Stanley Milgram. Stanley Milgram was a psychologist studying people’s obedience and seeing how far someone would obey orders from a perceived authority figure. He had random test subjects believing they were administering voltage shocks to someone in another room when answering questions wrong; subjects, however, were unaware that the person they were shocking was a confederate and not actually being harmed or shocked. Results showed that most people continued to give shock even at high voltages because they were listening to the perceived authority figure in the room with them. They unwilling gave shocks but also fell to the
