Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock

You WILL listen to this episode. You WILL enjoy it. The Two Humans discuss Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.

Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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