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'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'
by jessica at 9:04 pm EDT, Sep 18, 2004

] Thirty years ago, they were wide-eyed, first-year graduate
] students, ordered by their iconoclastic professor, Dr.
] Stanley Milgram, to venture into the New York City subway
] to conduct an unusual experiment.
]
] Their assignment: to board a crowded train and ask
] someone for a seat. Then do it again. And again.

I love Milgram. Just for fun, look up his obedience study sometime. (Can you tell I'm back in school? Psych major...)

But anyhow, this raises a very important question.. Are you tough enough to ask someone to give up their seat on the subway?
Apparently the thought scared even Milgram...


 
 
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