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===Replications=== [[File:A-Virtual-Reprise-of-the-Stanley-Milgram-Obedience-Experiments-pone.0000039.s011.ogv|thumb|A virtual replication of the experiment, with an [[avatar (computing)|avatar]] serving as the learner]] Around the time of the release of ''Obedience to Authority'' in 1973β1974, a version of the experiment was conducted at [[La Trobe University]] in Australia. As reported by Perry in her 2012 book ''Behind the Shock Machine'', some of the participants experienced long-lasting psychological effects, possibly due to the lack of proper debriefing by the experimenter.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=6F7A8999B1F18DFBCBE929A700007932?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=356&clsPage=1&docID=SMH1204261F69150R286 | title = Dark legacy left by shock tactics | last = Elliott | first = Tim | date = April 26, 2012 | newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304134154/http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac;jsessionid=6F7A8999B1F18DFBCBE929A700007932?sy=afr&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=1month&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=brs&cls=356&clsPage=1&docID=SMH1204261F69150R286 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2002, the British artist [[Rod Dickinson]] created ''The Milgram Re-enactment'', an exact reconstruction of parts of the original experiment, including the uniforms, lighting, and rooms used. An audience watched the four-hour performance through one-way glass windows.<ref>''History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance'', ed. Inke Arns, Gabriele Horn, Frankfurt: Verlag, 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milgramreenactment.org/|title=The Milgram Re-enactment|access-date=June 10, 2008|archive-date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121191551/http://www.milgramreenactment.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> A video of this performance was first shown at the CCA Gallery in [[Glasgow]] in 2002. A partial replication of the experiment was staged by British illusionist [[Derren Brown]] and broadcast on UK's [[Channel 4]] in ''[[The Heist (Derren Brown special)|The Heist]] ''(2006).<ref name=DerrenBrown>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/y6GxIuljT3w| archive-date=2021-10-30|title=The Milgram Experiment on YouTube| website=[[YouTube]]| date=July 15, 2007|access-date=December 21, 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Another partial replication of the experiment was conducted by Jerry M. Burger in 2006 and broadcast on the Primetime series ''Basic Instincts''. Burger noted that "current standards for the ethical treatment of participants clearly place Milgram's studies out of bounds." In 2009, Burger was able to receive approval from the [[institutional review board]] by modifying several of the experimental protocols, including halting the experiment after the 150-volt switch and having the learner directly tell the participant within a few seconds of the end of the experiment that they had not received any shocks.<ref name=BurgerWP2008>{{Cite journal|last=Burger|first=Jerry M.|title=Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today?|journal=[[American Psychologist]]|year=2008|url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-64-1-1.pdf|doi=10.1037/a0010932|pmid=19209958|volume=64|issue=1|pages=1β11|hdl=10822/952419|citeseerx=10.1.1.631.5598|s2cid=207550934|access-date=October 22, 2018|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327051558/https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-64-1-1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Burger found obedience rates virtually identical to those reported by Milgram in 1961β62, even while meeting current ethical regulations of informing participants. In addition, half the replication participants were female, and their rate of obedience was virtually identical to that of the male participants. Burger also included a condition in which participants first saw another participant refuse to continue. However, participants in this condition obeyed at the same rate as participants in the base condition.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=January 3, 2007|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416&page=1|title=The Science of Evil|access-date=January 4, 2007|archive-date=January 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070104205716/http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416&page=1|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 2010 French documentary ''[[Le Jeu de la Mort]]'' (''The Game of Death''), researchers recreated the Milgram experiment with an added critique of [[reality television]] by presenting the scenario as a [[game show]] pilot. Volunteers were given β¬40 and told that they would not win any money from the game, as this was only a trial. Only 16 of 80 "contestants" (teachers) chose to end the game before delivering the highest-voltage punishment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124838091|title=Fake TV Game Show 'Tortures' Man, Shocks France|website=[[NPR]]|access-date=October 19, 2010|archive-date=October 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024013236/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124838091|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20100317-disturbing-tv-docu-game-tests-limits-small-screen-power-france-game-of-death |title=Fake torture TV 'game show' reveals willingness to obey |date=March 17, 2010 |access-date=March 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323051311/http://www.france24.com/en/20100317-disturbing-tv-docu-game-tests-limits-small-screen-power-france-game-of-death |archive-date=March 23, 2010 }}</ref> The experiment was performed on ''[[Dateline NBC]]'' on an episode airing April 25, 2010. The [[Discovery Channel]] aired the "How Evil are You?" segment of ''[[Curiosity (TV series)|Curiosity]]'' on October 30, 2011. The episode was hosted by [[Eli Roth]], who produced results similar to the original Milgram experiment, though the highest-voltage punishment used was 165 volts, rather than 450 volts. Roth added a segment in which a second person (an actor) in the room would defy the authority ordering the shocks, finding more often than not, the subjects would stand up to the authority figure in this case.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/how-evil-are-you.htm |title=Curiosity: How evil are you? |access-date=April 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201125734/http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/how-evil-are-you.htm |archive-date=2014-02-01 }}</ref>
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