- This describes the extent to which the result of a study can be applied to other everyday life situation other individuals.
- Laboratory experiments are often seen as artificial and unreal (they lack mundane realism.) However, if they have experimental realism this may give them external validity ( if the participants regard the experimental situation as real).
- Further support for external validity from research with similar result in other cultures, showing that the findings can be applied to other situations and other people.
- Milgram's experiment raises question as to whether any parallels to the Holocaust can be drawn from his research.
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