Virtual milgram: empathic concern or personal distress? Evidence from functional MRI and dispositional measures
One motive for behaving as the agent of another’s aggression appears to be anchored in as yet unelucidated mechanisms of obedience to authority. In a recent partial replication of Milgram’s obedience paradigm within an immersive virtual environment, participants administered pain...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.029.2009/full |