Condition

Description

Completion Rate

Remote-Feedback

Subject indirectly hears the learner (wall banging)

65 percent

Voice-Feedback

Subject directly hears the learner’s verbal reactions to being “shocked”

62.5 percent

Proximity

Subject and learner, in the same room, can directly see and hear each other

40 percent

Touch-Proximity

Subject and learner are in the same room and can directly see and hear each other. At the 150-volt switch the learner refuses to participate so the experimenter instructs the subject to force the learner’s hand on the shock plate (thus, the subject must also touch the learner)

30 percent