They have looked again at the famed Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiment studies from the 1960s and 1970s, and have come to different conclusions as to why people do the wrong things when they believe an authority wants them to do so.

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This experiment is one of a series of studies in the growing field of neuroeconomics, which investigates how people calculate risks and rewards.

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There have been no studies of patient outcomes since the experiment began.

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But all the studies merely make observations in existing databases--the least reliable way to conduct an experiment.

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