Stanley Milgram 's groundbreaking studies on obedience certainly shocked the world with their electrifying results. The experiment that Milgram conducted included ordinary people delivering “shocks” to an unknown subject, which caused much controversy to occur and raised many questions in the psychological world. Diana Baumrind, a psychologist at the University of California and one of Milgram’s colleagues, attacks Milgram’s ethics in her review. She decides that Milgram 's tests are unethical towards
Still, many questions still remain prevalent as to how an individual reaches his or her decision on obedience in a distressing environment. Inspired by Nazi trials, Stanley Milgram, an American psychologist, questions the social norm in “Perils of Obedience” (1964), where he conducted a study to test how far the average American was willing to for under the pressures of an authority figure. Milgram 's study showed that under the orders of an authoritative figure, 64% of average Americans had the capability
ranking is not only present in today 's society but also can be seen historically. One of the most significant examples of conforming to the demands of an authority figure was witnessed in Second World War, where 45 million people were slaughtered on command (Milgram cited in Dixon). Stanley Milgram was intrigued by this and explored this level of
Study of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram (1963) Stanley Milgram Yale University Group 1: Wasis Ali, Christopher Okpala, Michelle Walden, Estefany Majano General Psychology 1010 Ms. Thompson Spring Semester, March 17, 2014 Introduction In 1961, The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology published an article by Stanley Milgram, a researcher at Yale University, and his study testing obedience towards political influence vs towards morals and values taught from an early age (Milgram, 1963)
Known as the man who shocked the world, Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that changed the way power of authority was viewed. A few psychologists have declared that Milgram 's experiment was eye-opening, but others have also stated that his experiment verified nothing about obedience. As the author of the article "Obedience," Ian Parker critiques Milgram 's experiment claiming that it had its faults; for example, his conclusions failed to prove his theory on the occurrence of the
Milgram Obedience & Ethical Treatment Milgram Obedience Experiment & Ethical Treatment Evelyn R. Cotton General Sociology Blue Ridge Community & Technical College Abstract The ethical treatment with the Milgram Obedience Experiment was one of many,
History of Obedience and Conformity With the utterance of “research in obedience,” Stanley Milgram is the epithet in social psychology. 56 years ago, Milgram tested the limits of a person 's ability to commit deeds that would normally be directionally challenging to their moral compass when commanded to act by an authority figure. Just 15 years after the World War II Holocaust, the Milgram experiments was a social psychology response to a topic of “particular relevance” during that time (Milgram, 1963):
fairly high levels of obedience to authority displayed in Milgram's classic experiment as the paradigmatic example of evil behavior (Berkowitz, 1999). Reading about the work of Ross and Nisbett, 1991 (as cited in Berkowitz,
did the subordinates of Adolph Hitler blindly follow his immoral orders?” Well, that is exactly why Stanley Milgram conducted experiments to test how far an ordinary person would go to inflict pain onto a stranger. The Nazi killing was brutal and inhumane, but the people conflicting death upon thousands felt no remorse or guilt so the Milgram Experiment was used to finally get answers. Milgram concluded that many will go to extreme lengths to obey authority and tend to believe what they are doing is
Hitler condemn so many people to death and question why he was hated by them?” Well that is exactly why Stanley Milgram conducted experiments to test how far an ordinary person would inflict pain onto a stranger. The Nazi killing was brutal and inhumane but the people conflicting death upon thousands felt no remorse or guilt so the Milgram Experiment was used to finally get answers. Milgram concluded that many will go to extreme lengths to obey authority and tend to believe what they are doing is the