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Milgram found that approximately two thirds of participants obeyed in his obedience studies. They demonstrated obedience by continuing to administer (what they thought were) electric shocks to a confederate, as prompted by an experimenter in a learning experiment. Milgram interpreted this obedience in terms of a shift to the agentic state. The agentic state describes a change in a person’s sense of agency, from feeling responsible for their own actions, to feeling that they are no longer responsible for their actions, but rather that they are following the orders of someone in authority over them.

Another approach to making sense of Milgram’s findings was put forward by Reicher and Haslam (2011), who argued that …