A similar study that relates to the Milgram experiment is the Dutch study. The study by Meeus and Raaijmakers, the inventors, included an experimenter, the actual participant, and a confederate who was introduced as a job candidate. The experimenter told the participants to disturb the applicant while he was taking a test. Furthermore, they were told that if the job candidate failed the test he would become unemployed. The experimenter instructed the participant to make fifteen stressful observations that would be detrimental to the job candidate's performance. Now, if participants refused, they received a series of four stimuli, similar to those in the Milgram experiment. Also added was a control group who were instructed to make negative comments, but were not told how many. The result of the Dutch study was that 91% of the experimental group made all fifteen observations. But no one in the control group got to all fifteen. Like Milgram, participants didn't like what they were doing and placed much of the blame for what happened on the job candidate.
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