George has just graduated from college and is going on his first big job interview. he has learned that there are 10 other applicants for the job. on account of information on the serial position effect that he learned in his psychology class, george asks to be either the first or the last candidate interviewed. why?

It is because the serial position effect means the inclination in people to remember the first items and the last in a list in more detailed manner than those coming in the middle, George want to use this for his benefit. The person who discovered the serial position effect was Hermann Ebbinghaus. 

- "ethical issues. deception – the participants actually believed they were shocking a real person and were unaware the learner was a confederate of milgram's. however, milgram argued that “illusion is used when necessary in order to set the stage for the revelation of certain difficult-to-get-at-truths.” "

- "milgram's work was conducted in the early 1960s before the current.the studies ignited a debate about the ethical treatment of participants. what appear to be dangerous, if not deadly, electric shocks and the by today's ethical standards, many questions about the research have gone unanswered."