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A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments 1,5 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 Mel Slater *, Angus Antley , Adam Davison , David Swapp , Christoph Guger , Chris Barker , Nancy Pistrang , Maria V. Sanchez-Vives 1 Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Guger Technologies OEG, Schiedlberg, Austria, 3 Sub- Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad ´ ´ Miguel Hernandez - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientıficas, Campus de San Juan, San Juan de Alicante, Spain, 5 Institucio Catalana de la ` Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Virtual Reality Centre of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Background. Stanley Milgram’s 1960s experimental findings that people would administer apparently lethal electric shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure remain critical for understanding obedience. Yet, due to the ethical controversy that his experiments ignited, it is nowadays impossible to carry out direct experimental studies in this area. In the study reported in this paper, we have used a similar paradigm to the one used by Milgram within an immersive virtual environment. Our objective has not been the study of obedience in itself, but of the extent to which participants would respond to such an extreme social situation as if it were real in spite of their knowledge that no real events were taking place. Methodology. Following the style of the original experiments, the participants were in