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Should Experimental tests on Obedience be performed? Through the years many psychologists have studied how human beings follow authority or a group over their own conscience in many cases. Yet, people have also shown that they can go against authority and do what they feel right. Is being obedient wrong? In many cases obedience is necessary to live communal lives. Yet, if this obedience makes you go against your own conscience and harm another human …

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…those in Milgram's experiment were concerned for there victims and felt guilty for their actions. Baumrind shows that these types of experiments do not accurately show how people behave in the real world and that this type of test may be harmful to its subjects. Although, Lessing believes that we should use these experiments to teach ourselves when not to be obedient Milgram's study is not significant to how humans react in the real world.