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-Milgram wanted to know how many people would obey an authority figure when directly ordered to violate their ethical standards.
-People were randomly assigned to a role either a "teacher" or a "learner
-whenever the learner who was in the next room made an error in reciting a list of word pairs he was supposed to have memorized, the teacher had to give him an electric shock by depressing a lever on a machine, being increased by 15 volts with every error. However, none of the learners actually received any shocks but the teachers didn't know this.
-people believed most teachers would not go over 150 volts, and only a disturbed and sadistic person would go to the highest voltage, however, two-thirds of the students obeyed to the fullest extent
-The only times people were more likely to disobey was when the experimenter left the room, when the victim was right there in the room, when two experimenters issued conflicting demands, when the person ordering them to continue was an ordinary man, and when the participant worked with peers who refused to go further. 