Stanley Milgram's Study
Stanley Milgram's study was called the Milgram Experiment. The experiment was to see how people would react to obedience to authority. Stanley Milgram wanted to see if the Nazi’s in Germany were justified in their actions due to cognitive dissonance or obedience to authority. He ran an advertisement in the paper offering to pay for people to participate in a study for memory; one group were the teachers and the other group were the learners. The teachers read words to the learners that they had to repeat back from memory. If the students or learners were incorrect they were to receive shocks. The teacher didn’t know the shocks weren’t real and the students were actors playing a tape with sounds of people in pain. The person running the test