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===Validity=== In a 2004 issue of the journal ''[[Jewish Currents]]'', Joseph Dimow, a participant in the 1961 experiment at Yale University, wrote about his early withdrawal as a "teacher", suspicious "that the whole experiment was designed to see if ordinary Americans would obey immoral orders, as many Germans had done during the Nazi period."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dimow |first=Joseph |url=http://www.jewishcurrents.org/2004-jan-dimow.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040202065547/https://jewishcurrents.org/2004-jan-dimow.htm |archive-date=February 2, 2004|title=Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments |journal=Jewish Currents |date=January 2004}}</ref> In 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram's data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a "troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired." She wrote that "only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter".<ref name="perry">{{cite book |first=Gina |last=Perry |date=April 26, 2012 |title=Behind the Shock Machine: the untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments |publisher=[[The New Press]] |isbn=978-1921844553}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Perry |first=Gina |title=Deception and Illusion in Milgram's Accounts of the Obedience Experiments |date=2013 |journal=Theoretical & Applied Ethics |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=79β92 |issn=2156-7174 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317914282 |access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> She described her findings as "an unexpected outcome" that "leaves social psychology in a difficult situation."<ref>{{cite interview |interviewer=[[NPR]] Staff |first=Gina |last=Perry |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/209559002/taking-a-closer-look-at-milgrams-shocking-obedience-study |title=Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking Obedience Study |publisher=[[NPR]] |work=All Things Considered |date=August 28, 2013 |access-date=October 22, 2018 |archive-date=October 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022080226/https://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/209559002/taking-a-closer-look-at-milgrams-shocking-obedience-study |url-status=live }}</ref> In a book review critical of Gina Perry's findings, Nestar Russell and John Picard take issue with Perry for not mentioning that "there have been well over a score, not just several, replications or slight variations on Milgram's basic experimental procedure, and these have been performed in many different countries, several different settings and using different types of victims. And most, although certainly not all of these experiments have tended to lend weight to Milgram's original findings."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Russell |first1=Nestar |last2=Picard |first2=John |title=Gina Perry. ''Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments'' |journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences |date=2013 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=221β223 |doi=10.1002/jhbs.21599 |department=Book Reviews}}</ref>
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