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Replicating Milgram: Would people still obey today?

Jerry M. Burger

American Psychologist, 2009. DOI 10.1037/a0010932

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful. The earliest on record is from 2025.

Replications

• Doubting the power of prestige: obedience to authority beyond institutional and research justifications, Grzyb et al. (2025). Scientific Reports. Outcome recorded: successful. the findings revealed that the levels of obedience closely mirrored those observed by Milgram in the 1960s, with neither the study's location nor the framing significantly influencing participants' actions. Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

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Burger, J. M. (2009). Replicating Milgram: Would people still obey today? American Psychologist, 64(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0010932

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