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Subjects saw a short 12-min version of the documentary, Obedience, sho
wing a participant continuing to 180 V. The more authoritarian the vie
wer, the less the amount of responsibility he or she attributed to the
teacher-subject for punishing the learner. Overall, viewers allocated
the greatest amount of responsibility to the experimenter, less to th
e teacher-subject, and least to the learner.