cyranoid

Even when she begins to explain to one subject that she is a cyranoid speaking the words of Dr Milgram, her vocal expression suggests that in this act of debriefing she is still listening to Milgram’s utterances and carefully repeating them.

Voices off: Stanley Milgram’s cyranoids in historical context - Marcia Holmes, Daniel Pick, 2019

Milgram’s cyranoid experiments, though incipient and ultimately incomplete, considered what would happen if one person pretended the mind of another was their own by parroting the words of a secret confederate.

Voices off: Stanley Milgram’s cyranoids in historical context - Marcia Holmes, Daniel Pick, 2019

From the video recordings, it appears that she is a willing medium for Milgram’s messages – a ‘cyranoid’, in Milgram’s terminology – though not a preternaturally capable one.

Voices off: Stanley Milgram’s cyranoids in historical context - Marcia Holmes, Daniel Pick, 2019