Charting the psychology of evil, decades after 'shock' experiment(#10)

i read an article called 'Charting the psychology of evil, decades after 'shock' experiment' from cnn.com by Elizabeth Landau. The article talks about an experiment con ducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960's. He would take one person and put them in a room and told them they were to teach a student in the next room a pair of words and if they got them wrong the teacher was to turn on a shock machine which delivers innocent person in the next room a 450 voltage shock. Of course this shock was fake and there was no person in the other room there was a recording of painful reactions. But the teacher in the other room didn't know that but some people continued to deliver the shock until the person stoped making noises and some refused to continue. this experiment revealed that if someone seems to have some authority over a person the person will obey their orders no matter what.Recently the experiment has been recreated but they used people who were not familiar with the earlier experiment. In this case though they told the subject that they could stop shocking the student whenever they wanted to but there was really no large change in the results less that fifty percent of the subjects continued the shocking. This experiment displayed that good people can do evil things just based on orders given by a superior. i thought that this was very interesting article.
link to the article:cnn.com