Stanley Milgram conducted an examination‚ in the 60’s‚ based on the justification for the acts of genocide offered by those who were accused in the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials of WWII. Their defense‚ as they claimed was solely based on “obedience” and that they were in fact only following their superior’s orders. This eventually led to the study on the conflict between obedience toward authority and one’s personal conscious. His experiment was a model of simplicity. The idea was to take an ‘experimenter’
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(Hysterically) You have no right to hold me here. Let me out!” (Milgram‚ 1965) You would hope that any decent human being would sympathise and realise that enough is enough. But Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment found that an astonishing 26 out of 40 (Milgram‚ 1963) of your average‚ everyday American men would shock an innocent human being to the point of death even after hearing these pleads. In 1963‚ psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to investigate why millions of innocent people were slaughtered
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Stanley Milgram is a 20th century social psychologist who conducted research into social influence and persuasion. His experiments on obedience remain some of the most frequently cited and controversial in the history of the field. Brown‚ R. (1986)‚ “Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.” He argues that
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subject had given the maximum 450-volt shock three times in succession. The experiment was inspired by the Holocaust - were the Germans in league with the Nazis‚ or where they simply following orders as they exterminated the Nazi’s victims? Milgram wanted to study whether people would obey an authority figure‚ or would their own morals make them stop the experiment? The result - 65% of people administered the maximum 450-volt shock. Only one refused to go above 300 volts. From source
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Evaluate Milgrams research into obedience. Stanley Milgram (1963) explains why 65% of the people did something they felt was morally wrong‚ that is they went into an agentic state and exhibited some aspects of denial in order to avoid moral strain. However‚ Milgram does not explain why 65% did not obey. In other words‚ it does not explain individual differences as the volunteers in Milgrams experiment seemed to resist the pressure and Milgram does not explain that. To continue‚ the experiment
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into a total institution in regards to what he calls the “privilege system”. While the playground social setting is only for play‚ and therefore not a total institution‚ the same theories of using “house rules”‚ privileges‚ and punishments² to gain obedience could be applied. While I did not see any specific examples of it happening‚ it is likely that children understood a set of rules they were to follow at the park‚ whether their caretaker told them before they got to the park‚ or on previous trips
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IB Psychology (HL) Krissy Gear Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience P. 3 July 1961‚ Yale University Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test peoples’ obedience to authority figures. He wanted to see how many people would comply or resist commands by (an idea of) an authority figure. Milgram’s experiment began with two men about twenty to fifty years in age. The participants volunteered through an advertisement and a promise of $4.50 for their
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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Stanley Milgram experimented with the theory that people will likely submit and follow an authority figure. He determined this from a famous experiment he conducted named the Milgram Obedience Experiment. In this test‚ he gathered random people and assigned them as the “teacher”‚ and placed them in a room with the controls for a shock machine (with various settings‚ from slight shock to XXX). Then he placed a confederate in a room‚ attached to a shock machine‚ who was the “student”. The “teacher”
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Milgram (1963) claimed that destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This essay will first consider what is meant by destructive obedience and briefly look at Milgram’s work. It will then look at what is inferred by situational factors‚ focusing on conformity‚ socialisation
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