“Basically he did a experiment to test obedience, which proved that most people do obey authority even when it means inflicting pain on someone else…”
I never heard of this study and have no idea how this conclusion was reached and have no basis to disagree. Nonetheless, I would have thought that the obedience wasnt about inflicting pain on someone else but avoiding the pain on themselves.
Chazal praise the shotrim in mitzrayim, not because they did not hit their fellow yidden, rather, because they were willing to absorb the punishment themselves. In other words, they overcame their fear of being hit and said “rather I be hit then I hit him”.
Same with Miriam and Yocheved (Shifra and Puah). They were not as concerned about not hurting someone else, as they were in doing what was right, even at the risk of getting hurt themself.
In short, I would argue with the conclusion drawn by this study and say that people are not obedient to the point where they would even hurt others rather, I would say they are obedient for fear of being at the receiving end of whatever it is they are doing to the next person.
There is another popular study done that says people are motivated by 1 of 2 things, fear and money. The fear of being hit, or the monetary gain is what causes someone to be obedient, even to the point of hurting another person.