Obedience to authority can be a powerful social pressure to conform and comply with a request that might be against our intuitive sense of right and wrong. Milgram's study of obedience has contributed to understanding how people can commit in human acts under situational constraints. Read about the experiment and put yourself in the participant's situation and explain how you honestly think you would have responded if you were in that experiment. Would you have administered the shocks? Please remember that I need to know that you have read and understood the materials.