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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Main Authors: Marcus Cheetham, Andreas Pedroni, Angus Antley, Mel Slater, Lutz Jäncke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.029.2009/full