Stanley Milgram's 1962 Social Experiment On Obedience

Reciprocal determinism is the cognitive processes, behavior, and context influencing and being influenced by the others. Shane Koyczan was bullied and got called names such as; Yogi and Porkchop. He saw others bullied as well; an 8-year-old girl being called ugly, a boy who started therapy in the 8th grade and tried to kill himself in the 10th. As a kid Koyczan was asked what he wanted to be, he wanted to be a man. At age 8 he wanted to be a Marine Biologist. Age, 10 his parents left, 11 wanted to be alone, 12 wanted to die, 13 wanted to kill someone, 14 asked to choose a career. He wanted to be a writer, was told to not be stupid, they told him what not to be and to accept the identity others gave him. Age 15-18 he turned into what he

People often comply because they are afraid of the consequence if they do not. Stanley Milgram’s 1962 social experiment on obedience was probably the number 1 of all time. Milgram's reason to study was that he asked, could the holocaust happen again? This led to the question, under what circumstances do people obey authority when the behavior goes against their moral principle? For the study Milgram gathered 40 males between the ages of 20-50, the subjects were told the experiment was about learning and people learn correctly punished. They split them into categories of leaner and teacher. The teachers had to ask the learner questions and for any question wrong, they would shock them. As the questions went on the voltage became higher, it started at 15 volts and went to 450 volts. However, each subject was always the teacher and the learners were in on it and provided a recording of wrong answers and protest to coordinate with the shock voltage. One learner even spoke about a heart condition he had in front of a subject. As the experiment went on you could see there was significant anxiety for the subject when administering the shocks. A subject asked how far you could go on this and was told as far as is necessary. It was noted that obedience is a necessary ingredient for society to function. 60-65% of the subjects went all the way to the last volt of 450. None of the subjects were forced to do this, but they had the right combination of diffusion of responsibility and the fact that the authority told them to do it. Obedience is needed sometimes but can become abused and by understanding this we can see that anyone is subject to do sadistic