What did Milgram study?

A) the authoritarian personality
B) bystander apathy
C) the effects of watching violence on television
D) obedience to authority

Milgram's most famous study focused on obedience to authority. Participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to a "learner" in another room, with the shocks increasing in intensity with each mistake the learner made. The study sought to understand why people would continue to administer painful shocks, even when they believed they were causing harm to another person, simply because an authority figure instructed them to do so.