Experimenters

I remember, back in college, learning about the obedience experiments: participants were asked to administer shocks for "wrong answers" to a series of questions.  The person giving the jolts of electricity were told to up the voltage for every wrong answer.    In reality, the person receiving the jolts, was part of the experiment, an actor on the team--but the jolt-er did not know that.

This film, Experimenters, streamed on Netflix, is about the sociopsychologist, who was responsible for those famous experiments.

65% of the participants administered shocks even when they thought they were inflicting pain on another person.  The question at the core of the experiments is: How far will we go if someone in authority asks us to do something that goes against our moral and individual grain?