Image: still from Shock Room with actor Simon London.
Shock Room breaks open Stanley Milgram’s dramatic infamous 1960s ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiment and forces us to re-evaluate its conclusions. In the wake of the Holocaust, Milgram wanted to understand why people inflict harm on others. In 1962, he staged his experiment. Under the guise of participating in a study on memory and learning, participants were asked to inflict apparently lethal shocks on a fellow human being. Milgram later famously claimed that 65% of us will blindly follow orders.