Experimenter Page #3

Continue, please.

The last switch again.

Yeah, but...

but he could be dead in there.

The experiment

requires that you continue.

Go on, please.

And his health doesn't mean anything?

Whether the learner likes it or not,

we must continue.

I'm sorry, look,

I don't mean to be rude, sir,

but I think you should

go look in on him. I mean,

all you have to do is look in on him.

Look into that door.

'Cause I'm not getting any noise,

I'm not getting no sound here.

We must continue.

Go on, please,

the next word is "white".

Cloud, horse,

rock, house."

White horse.

Four hundred and fifty volts again.

"Fair:
Price, rule, skin, sky."

Wrong. 450 again.

All right, thank you.

We are done with the experiment.

Okay.

I'm just going

to speak with the learner.

I think he might be a little upset.

In the meantime,

my assistant would like

to ask you a few questions,

- if you don't mind?

- Yeah, surely.

Dr. Milgram?

How do you do?

Uh, first I'd like...

No, thank you.

- I'd like to ask you some questions.

- Yes, surely.

Uh, why did you give him,

the man in the other room,

the learner, the shocks?

Well, as you could see,

I wanted to stop 'cause...

each time you gave him a shock

the guy hollered.

Did it sound as if he was in pain?

Yeah.

Did he say he wanted you

to stop the experiment?

Yes.

Did he have a right

to stop the experiment?

I don't know.

Why didn't you stop,

at that point,

- when he asked you to stop?

- Why didn't I stop?

- Mm-hm.

- Well, 'cause...

'Cause he told me to continue.

Why did you listen to that man

and not the man in pain?

Well, 'cause... 'cause I thought

the experiment depended on me.

- And nobody told me to stop.

- He asked you to stop.

That... That's true, but he's the...

you know, the subject, shall we say?

Who was the...

Who bore the responsibility for the

fact this man was being shocked?

I don't know.

Could you fill out items six

through 18 on the questionnaire

in front of you, please?

Here's a pen.

Ah, I get a little skittish.

Uh... nervous.

As I explained to

Mr. Wallace in the other room,

this shock generator's actually

used for small animals

for laboratory experiments.

Mice, rats, and so forth.

The visual designation

is actually misleading.

This shock generator's actually

been adjusted so that the shocks

were just slightly stronger

than the shock you experienced.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine, you know.

No hard feelings. I probably would've

done the same thing myself.

Ciao.

Each subject has a

reconciliation with the learner.

We ask the subject

to maintain a secrecy

so that future recruits

aren't tipped off.

Down the line

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