The film, The Human Behavior Experiments, uses several experiments to demonstrate why most people, without question, do what they are told by a person in a position of authority. In the Milgram experiment on obedience, conducted by Dr. Stanley Milgram, participants were instructed to give electrical shocks to the person on the other end. Many of the participants followed orders, even though they thought they might hurt or even kill the person. The experiment showed that when authority figures give people instructions to do something that might hurt another person, some people would obey. In the Stanford prison experiment, psychologist Philip Zimbardo paid college students to play roles of guards and prisoners. Zimbardo and other psychologist
