The Milgram experiments deliberately recruited subjects to a sham obedience study.

Evidence

The advertisement was placed in the New Haven Register and yielded a disappointingly low response. There is no immediate crisis, however, since we do have about 300 qualified applicants. But before long, in your role as Solicitor General, you will have to think of ways to deliver more people to the laboratory. This is a very important practical aspect of the research. I will admit it bears some resemblance to Mr. Eichman’s [sic] position, but you at least should have no misconceptions of what we do with our daily quota. We give them a chance to resist the commands of malevolent authority and assert their alliance with morality. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 600

Categorization

• CANDY: The jarring echo of Eichmann in a recruiting letter is a memorable, quotable detail about how the obedience studies were framed and run.
• XREF: connects to: Many psychology students knew of Milgram’s study, forcing deception in later replication — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3910; By 1980 nearly half of incoming psychology students knew Milgram’s experiment — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3910

Broader Connections

• Many psychology students knew of Milgram’s study, forcing deception in later replication #expands (0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3910
• By 1980 nearly half of incoming psychology students knew Milgram’s experiment #expands (0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3910