Milgram's Experiments

The Milgram Experiment conducted at Yale University in 1963, focused on whether a person would follow instructions from someone showing authority. Students (actors) were asked questions by the teachers (participants), if the students got the answer wrong they would receive a shock each higher than the previous. The shocks ranged from Slight shock (15v) to Danger! (300v) to XXX (450v). Stanley Milgram wanted to know if people would do things just because someone with authority told them to, even if it was hurting someone. I believe that the experiment was a good way to test the obedience of people

Another instance where V 's actions harm innocent people without caring was when he ordered innocent people to wear Guy Fawkes masks and march to the parliament to watch the explosion. These citizens could have been killed by the military officers who waited for orders to strike though no orders were given. If V was a revolutionary, he could have found the way of making a statement without risking the lives of the innocent citizens. His evil actions present him as a rebel against the government and his fellow citizens. He also states that ‘ 'violence could be used for good. ' ' V 's actions of not caring about the others were the same as compared to Stanley Milgram experiment actions. The subjects in this experiment were suffering, but the experimenter did nothing to relieve the students the pain. Instead, he urged the teachers to continue to torture the students knowing very well they were suffering from the high voltage. The teachers played the sadist role as they agreed as they completely obeyed the experimenter 's instructions. V 's evil actions also present him as a sadist by enjoying hurting people and killing the ones who were in charge of the experiments.

The Roles of Social Powers In the article, “The Milgram Experiment” by Saul McLeod, he suggests that testing subjects given immoral demands from an authority figure can cause them to be more obedient, even if it is wrong. In the article titled “The Power of Situations” by Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett, they can be seen to agree with situational behavior in the Mcleod Study, but go about it in a different way than Mcleod explains in his article. Ross & Nisbett present multiple studies that have found that a certain situation can alter how one dictates their conscience, making their behavior different. While McLeod and Ross & Nisbett both discuss the influence of situational factors on human behavior, Ross & Nisbett provide a much broader approach

People can change in a position of power from being normal to crazed. In the milgram experiment uses students from yale university were used to show a relation between position of power and being evil, the experiment showed that there was a relation. Saul Mcleod conveys through the article "THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT" that people put in positions of power, are more likely to be cruel to the people they are in power of. The other experiment the stanford experiment was to see how many people would kill another person when instructed to someone of a higher stature. The article by Saul Mcleod shows how people are suseptable of murdering someone when another person is to blame. Both articles show that positions of power can make people do insane

The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment, the subject of the experiment a volunteer, and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role, the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter, and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles, but unknown to the subject, both slips said "teacher". The actor would always claim to have drawn the slip that read "learner", thus guaranteeing that the subject would always be the "teacher". At this point, the "teacher" and "learner" were separated into different rooms where

Stanley Milgram conducted one of the most notorious experiments on behaviors regarding obedience. His experiment focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. The purpose was to determine how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Within the research experiment, Stanley Milgram refers to similar events in history that had similar aspects, such as the Nazi Holocaust and Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist plots.

Milgram (1963) conducted a study on obedience which investigated the extent people would obey to commands that involved harming individuals. There were 40 male participants from New Haven and the surrounding communities that partook in this study of learning and memory, at Yale University, by responding to a newspaper advert. The age range was between 20 and 50; and the participants’ occupation was diverse, ranging from unskilled to professional. Participants were paid $4.50 for entering the laboratory.

In the reading from Terror in the Mind of God, the author Mark Juergensmeyer aims to explain to the reader what religious terrorism is and dig deeper into why violence and religion seem to be tied, searching for “how terror could be convinced in the mind of God”. The chapters we read for class had a main focus of what terrorism is, what it is not, who is committing these acts of terrorism, and what is they are trying to achieve through the acts of violence. In the last chapter of our reading, Juergensmeyer reflects on how effective previous attacks have been and outlines the only options he sees available in response to our modern global terrorism.

On a deserted island a boy is tied up, and beaten for no reason while others stand by to watch. One man repeatedly shocks another man, even though he knows that it will be fatal. They both scream for mercy; one is spared, but the other is not so lucky. The “Stanley Milgram Experiment” and the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding both show how people will listen to authority even if they know what they are doing is causing harm.

Stanley Milgram’s original “six degrees of separation” experiment was flawed because it did not account for key factors that are essential to statistical experimentation. An example of the key factors that Milgram failed to consider in his experiment is the sampling method. Using a voluntary response sample Milgram formulated his conclusions. However, as often happens with voluntary response samples, the experiment’s success depended completely on who participated thus skewing the actual accuracy of the “six degrees of separation” that Milgram claimed resulted from the the findings of his original experiment. Furthermore, Milgram’s sample method carried over in how he started the letter trains. Instead of randomly selecting cities from which to start the letter trains, Milgram started all 60 letters by sending them

We live in the world that requests submission to power which are vital for society to work. Yet, dutifulness can have evil consequences for society, as power figures have minimal need to legitimize activities. Stanley Milgram led maybe a standout amongst the most celebrated brain science tests of our times. He led his tests to clarify how the occasions of the holocaust were conceivable.

Stanley Milgram conducted one of the most controversial psychological experiments of all time: the Milgram Experiment. Milgram was born in a New York hospital to parents that immigrated from Germany. The Holocaust sparked his interest for most of his young life because as he stated, he should have been born into a “German-speaking Jewish community” and “died in a gas chamber.” Milgram soon realized that the only way the “inhumane policies” of the Holocaust could occur, was if a large amount of people “obeyed orders” (Romm, 2015). This influenced the hypothesis of the experiment. How much pain would someone be willing to inflict on another just because an authority figure urged them to do so? The experiment involved a teacher who would ask questions to a concealed learner and a shock system. If the learner answered incorrectly, he would receive a shock. Milgram conducted the experiment many times over the course of 2 years, but the most well-known trial included 65% of participants who were willing to continue until they reached the fatal shock of 450 volts (Romm, 2015). The results of his experiment were so shocking that many people called Milgram’s experiment “unethical.”

Milgram (1963) was possessed with inquisitive about how far people would run in agreeing to a course in case it included harming another person. Stanley Milgram was enthused about how adequately regular people could be influenced into submitting anathemas for example, Germans in WWII. The method of consistence to master while fundamental administration is a most adversarial and disturbing example that has surrounded bit of mental examinations. One such examination which has been done in different assortments over the world is: Milligram attempt, which focuses on a champion among the most fundamental mental slants find in human be The celebrated Milligram cerebrum science tests, finished in the 1960s, anticipated that

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During the testing that was happening a 20 year old sophomore at SUNY was electrocuted. The man was standing in concrete bottom drainage when this happened. Most of his friends thought that he was fooling around but he wasn't he was actually being shocked (Kleiman, 1988). The Faculty of Arts and Science Committee has to approve or disapprove any proposals given to them, by any group receiving funding from the committee. There are also some guidelines inside of this committee called the FAS. the only ones that have to go through the Fas are the experiments involving physical stimuli,” in abnormal amounts,” the ingestion of toxic material, or illegal drugs. The committee must decide whether the subject wants to do the experiments on him and if he doesn't want to then they don't do the experiments. Most of the proposals given to the committee are good, so there are few controversies in human Experimentation. One member of the committee is Professor Joel Porte, he said that there's simply no longer any interest in human experimentation. There is this one experiment called the Milgram experiment, this proposal was crazy because sic out of the 12 committee members asked whether Milgram could do this experiment today at Harvard. Out of the five who felt that they could answer, four of them