Stanley Milgram conducted a classic experiment on obedience to authority in the 1960’s. When soliciting participants, he advertised it as a study of learning. Subsequently, participants served in the...

Stanley Milgram conducted a classic experiment on obedience to authority in the 1960’s. When soliciting participants, he advertised it as a study of learning. Subsequently, participants served in the role of the “teacher” who sat behind a controller and administered “electric shock” to the “learner” for incorrect responses. Throughout the study, participants believed that they had either badly injured, or in some cases, created a fatality. What about this study is considered ethically problematic in contemporary psychology