ABSTRACT
When “ordinary passersby” are told about the results of Milgram’s experiments, they often respond that the experiment must have been conducted on peculiar individuals. Many will add that “it is surely impossible for a normal human being to do such things.” The theme of a search for a connection between specific psychological predispositions and one’s behavior in the course of Milgram’s procedure has been present in the psychological literature from the 1970s. In our studies, we also searched for a correlation between the level of empathy (Davis, 1995), the location of the sense of control (Rotter, 1966), or the acceptance for the culture of honor (Nisbett & Cohen, 1996).
