The Milgram Experiment A lesson in depravity, peer pressure, and the power of authority The aftermath of the Holocaust and the events leading up to World War II, the world was stunned with the happenings in Nazi German and their acquired surrounding territories that came out during the Eichmann Trials. Eichmann, a high ranking official of the Nazi Party, was on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The questions is, "Could it be that Eichmann, and his million accomplices
The Milgram Experiment (Hart) Stanley Milgram’s experiment in the way people respond to obedience is one of the most important experiments ever administered. The goal of Milgram’s experiment was to find the desire of the participants to shock a learner in a controlled situation. When the volunteer would be ordered to shock the wrong answers of the victims, Milgram was truly judging and studying how people respond to authority. Milgram discovered something both troubling and awe inspiring about the
The Milgram Experiment The Milgram experiment is a very well-known and talked about experiment that looks that people’s obedience to authority. I found the Milgram experiment to be very interesting and fascinating even though there are some ethical issues with the experiment. I believe this experiment tells us a lot about ourselves and our society and can give us very important information about ourselves, like why we do what we do in certain situations. And I believe if psychologists and sociologists
This quote, by Stanley Milgram (1974, p. 205), exemplifies the debate that exists around the topic of obedience. Obedient behaviours have been studied in Milgram’s famous obedience experiments, and evidence of atrocities being carried out as a result of obedience can be seen in situations such as the holocaust in World War Two (Mastroianni, 2000) and more recent events such as (My Lai). This essay will explain both sides of the debate, arguing for situation and individual factors that influence people
Milgram #1 Factors such as institutional authority, people’s attitude change after the experiment, participants’ interaction with the experimenters or the confederates may play an important role in the results of Milgram’s experiment. People or even social psychologists can also be vulnerable to the situational factors and thus conform or obey. To begin with, the study was conducted in a prestigious university (Yale University). People may trust that the experimenters are competent and reputable
few studied in social psychology. Obedience is a type of social influence where an individual complies with instructions from an authority figure. The work of one famous social psychologist, “obedience to authority” at Yale University, Stanley Milgram (1963)
effect of the experiment on Milgram himself. Both articles discuss has similar points, they also uses Milgram’s words against him and while Baumrind attacks Milgram, Parker shows the reader that experiment
The Milgram experiment of the 1960s was designed to ascertain why so many Germans decided to support the Nazi cause. It sought to determine if people would be willing to contradict their conscience if they were commanded to do so by someone in authority. This was done with a psychologist commanding a teacher to administer an electric shock to a student each time a question was answered incorrectly. The results of the Milgram experiment help to explain why so many men in Nazi Germany were recruited
Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist, studying various aspects of society. Milgram focused on many important social issues, one of them was obedience. Perhaps his most famous experiment, Milgram tested the extent of authoritative power and how obediences can influence a person’s action . To test his theory on obedience, Milgram had asked a subject, known as the teacher, to shock a “learner” if they fail to remember a set of phrases. The shock was increased every time the learner made an error
the first step to our liberation.” Stanley Milgram made ground breaking discoveries in the field of psychology with his many experiments on obedience and people’s ability to have an effect on the actions of others. From one of his experiments was derived “The Six Degrees of Separation,” which is still studied today in psychology classes (Biography). He would come to be known as, “the man who shocked the world,” with a single experiment. Stanley Milgram was born in New York City in 1933 (Miller 1997)
In 1961, professor Stanley Milgram conducted the infamous Milgram Experiment, in which he measured the willingness of participants, or “teachers,” to shock a “tester” with increasingly high (and eventually lethal) voltages of electric current. Nearly forty-five years later, the experiment was replicated in the hopes that results would change….but out of the eighteen men and twenty-two women who tested, over 70% of participants administered the highest shock. The experiment reveals a disturbing truth:
The study was done at Yale University by the psychologist Stanley Milgram. The study assessed the willingness of men from various jobs and levels of education, to obey an authority figure who directed them to follow through with actions that conflicted with their personal conscience. The study found that most of the participants
The Milgram obedience experiment began in July of 1961. The experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. The experiment was met to measure the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform an experiment that was against their moral views. Milgrams participants for his experiments were from all backgrounds. The subjects ranged from college graduates to people that had not finished grade school. (Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience
EVALUATION The Milgram Experiment was biased and had many factors and variations that affected the outcome of his data. His experiment dealt with only male participants and so the data is not really able to represent how female participants would react. The American population is not able to be represented as well because his participants were self-selected. His participants came from a newspaper advertisement, so those who were wealthy and educated had the chance to participate, where those
1. The Milgram Shock Experiment was made after the Holocaust. Milgram, the man who invented this experiment, wanted to see if the participant in this test would obey an authority figure. Much as the Nazis did in the holocaust, and listened to every order Hitler demanded, even after many Nazis knew it was morally wrong. So, to test this, they had two people, one person would be giving shocks to the other under the orders of Milgram. In order to receive these shocks the person had to incorrectly
for this experiment to be successful, the participants had to be deceived. If Milgram would have explained the experiment to them before, the results would have been very different. Chances are that the subject wouldn’t have taken the authorities as seriously if they had known. When the authority would say things such as, “It is absolutely essential that we continue,” (Milgram, Perils, 63) “You have no other choice” (Milgram, Perils, 64) the subject might not find them intimidating because they knew
person of authority ordered you inflict a 15 to 400 volt electrical shock on another innocent human being, would you follow your direct orders? That is the question that Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University tested in the 1960’s. Most people would answer “no,” to imposing pain on innocent human beings but Milgram wanted to go further with his study. Writing and Reading across the Curriculum holds a shortened edition of Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience,” where he displays an eye-opening
Social science deals with a case study that gives the evidence regarding the beliefs of the researcher. The Milgram study is well-known in psychology. Milgram first began one study in 1961 after the Holocaust time period because he wanted to figure out if individuals were capable of harming others to being obedient to authority. The paper will summarize the study itself and how it was conducted. The writer will give explanation of the results, if the findings were unexpected, what transpired the
testable hypothesis, accordingly adjusts a single variable (experimental group) under carefully monitored conditions, then observes whether any changes have occurred on a second variable (control group). Neither Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study nor Milgram Obedience Study met the traditional
Summary Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted a study at Yale University in 1962, in an attempt to understand how individuals will obey directions or commands. This study become known as the Milgram Obedience Study. Stanley Milgram wanted to understand how normal people could become inhumane, cruel, and severely hurt other people when told to carry out an order, in a blind obedience to authority. This curiosity stemmed from the Nazi soldiers in Germany, and how their soldiers could do horrible acts to the