Editing Milgram experiment (section)

===Other variations===
Charles Sheridan at the [[University of Missouri]] and Richard King at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a "cute, fluffy puppy" that was given real, albeit apparently harmless, electric shocks. Their findings were similar to those of Milgram: Seven out of 13 of the male subjects and all 13 of the female subjects obeyed throughout. Many subjects showed high levels of distress during the experiment and some openly wept. In addition, Sheridan and King found that the duration for which the shock button was pressed decreased as the shocks got higher, meaning that for higher shock levels, subjects were more hesitant.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.holah.co.uk/files/sheridan_king_1972.pdf |title=Sheridan & King (1972) – Obedience to authority with an authentic victim, Proceedings of the 80th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 7: 165–6. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127071012/http://www.holah.co.uk/files/sheridan_king_1972.pdf |archive-date=January 27, 2018 |access-date=March 3, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Blass|1999|p=968}}</ref>

Another variation by psychologist Don Mixon in the early 1970s tested his theory that vagueness played a key role in the initial Milgram results. The maximum shock in the original experiment and all subsequent replications are simply labeled "XXX" as opposed to "lethal". He designed a replication of the experiment where it was implied that the shocks could be dangerous and cause harm to the learner saying, "The learner's health is irrelevant." Mixon found that obedience rates fell to a very low percentage.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Russell |first=Nestar |date=June 2014 |title=Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority "Relationship" Condition: Some Methodological and Theoretical Implications |journal=Social Sciences |language=en |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=194–214 |doi=10.3390/socsci3020194 |doi-access=free |issn=2076-0760}}</ref>