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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

It's not surprising that in these studies, people conformed because they're being pulled in two

directions. It's authority. They might get in trouble or they want to have to be what's called

socially desirable. There's an effect of that, wanting to please this experimenter.

Mount Sinai Hospital neuroscientist Heather Berlin.

She's talking about the famous Milgram experiment, in which subjects were told to give what

they believed would be painful electric shocks to people who got answers wrong on a test.

Berlin was part of a panel in New York City, February 27th,

after a performance of a play about the Milgram experiment. I moderated the panel.

The majority of subjects in the experiment delivered the alleged shocks, the supposed victim

was actually unhurt, when commanded to by the person overseeing the experiment.

And, you know, not everybody conformed, right?

You know, so 35% of people didn't.

And it would be interesting to see what was happening in their brain or mind, those who didn't.

But if we tell people about this, our underlying behavior, if you tell people about conformity and that we're being influenced by all these, you know, factors around us, will that be enough

to actually change our behavior if we bring these like sort of impulses to consciousness?

And the whole world now knows about the Milgram experiments.

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