What resources did the participants in the Milgram and Stanford University prison experiments who resisted hurting their subjects have that the other participants probably did not?

A) toughness of character
B) a compassionate heart
C) good critical thinking skills
D) a passive spirit

Milgram Experiment

A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study of the human response to captivity, in which participants were randomly assigned to play the roles of guards or prisoners, leading to controversial outcomes.

Critical Thinking Skills

The ability to actively and skillfully conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information to reach an answer or conclusion.