What actual event could have been predicted based on the results of Milgram's classic study on obedience?
a) the prison break at Attica prison in New York
b) the events in Waco, Texas, in which followers of a cult were killed by government agents
c) the events at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
d) the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
ANS: C, It is argued that because the soldiers who carried out the crimes at this prison claimed that they were acting under orders that this is an incident that may have been predicted by Milgram's findings.
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