The gradually escalating levels of destructive obedience in the Milgram experiments best illustrate one of the potential dangers of
A) deindividuation.
B) social facilitation.
C) groupthink.
D) the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

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The Milgram experiments demonstrated the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, where individuals who agreed to a small initial request (administering a low level of shock) were more likely to comply with a much larger request (administering increasingly higher levels of shock), illustrating how small acts of compliance can lead to larger acts of obedience, even to the point of causing harm to others.

The Gradually Escalating Levels of Destructive Obedience in the Milgram