Stanley Milgram 's Obedience Study

With each wrong answer came an electric shock that the teacher, a random male participant, had to physically cause. The teacher could hear the learner after a while begging to stop. At this point the teachers causing the pain are obviously uncomfortable. Some start by laughing nervously and other just immediately beg to stop the experiment. At this point the experimenter gives a series of orders to push the teacher to continue. As a result, two-thirds of participants carried on shocking the learner to the highest level of four hundred and fifty volts. All the participants involved continued up to three hundred

The experimenter in the study is the authority figure, constantly pressuring the teacher to carry out the experiment. When the voltages increased, the learner cite his heart issues in order to invoke a sympathetic response in the teacher. Meanwhile the experimenter is pushing the teacher to continue the experiment. Most teachers, at this point, would often get into an argument with the experimenter and would battle with their own morality whether or not to continue the experiment. The experiment is stopped when the teacher refuses to continue or the maximum amount of voltage had been administered.

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men” Harry Day USAF. That’s a great way to look at obedience as guidance and not as a complete absolute, for when people do things without thought people will get hurt. The Milgram experiment is a showcase of what people will do if they do not have to take personal responsibility. Just because someone with all the trappings of authority and power tell us to do something does not mean what we are doing is right. The Milgram experiment showed psychologist that is wrong to subjugate test subjects without prior knowledge or consent. Furthermore, we now know that people are affected in both the short and long term from deception of testing, and some will never get over the fact that they were lied to.

Stanley Milgram is one of the leading researchers into the psychology of obedience. Rice et al (2008) and was interested why thousands of German soldiers blindly obeyed orders that resulted in the death of millions of Jewish people during World War II. However if a

The Milgram experiment is a social experiment created to test why the Germans were so pernicious during World War II. Stanley Milgram ascertains that more than fifty percent of normal people will conform to higher authority. Stanley Milgram said, “I found so much obedience, I hardly saw the need for taking my experiment to Germany” (Milgram, The Perils). Milgram made this experiment to test the Germans, but he found out that human nature let's humans follow authoritarian orders without question. “The learner, seated in a separate room

The Milgram’s Experiment was an experiment to see how authority figures effects the way people obey conducted by Social psychology by the name Stanley Milgram this experiment was conducted in 1969. Milgram hired about 500 men between the ages of 20 and 50 from a newspaper ad he had placed. Milgram was looking for men that came from all walks in life. Milgram did not care if they were educated, uneducated, rich or poor he wanted them all. The men that were chosen to participate in the experiment were told that they would be paid 4.50 for one hour of their time if they participated in the experiment.

Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. “He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" — that they were just following orders from their superiors” (McLeod, 584). Selecting participants based off of newspaper advertisements, where a single participant would be taken into a room with a confederate of the experiment. The two would draw lots, which were fixed, to determine who would be the “teacher” and who would be the “learner.” The participant would always be the

Milgram’s infamous experiment was met with much controversy and even outrage. To Milgram, the experiment was considered to be a mixed blessing: it would both “make his name and destroy his reputation” (Parker 95). Diana Baumrind, a psychologist at the institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkley, was the spearhead of the anti-Milgram movement writing the “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” in which she reprimands Milgram for the maltreatment of his subjects (Baumrind 94). Baumrind questions the ethics of Milgram’s experiment, stating that it was his responsibility to protect the subjects from being humiliated or emotionally distressed. She also argues that Milgram’s findings were inconclusive,

The Milgram studies were studying obedience. The subjects were told that they were studying the effects of punishment on learning. The experiment was done by delivering an electrical shock whenever the wrong answer was given.

Considering the aim of this experiment and the way the volunteers acted, the objective of this experiment was achieved. According to Discover Magazine, in the first version of the experiment, 65% of participants who obeyed the orders went on to 450 volts, which had been the electric shock machine’s maximum voltage. With this large percentage in mind, if the participants had not been pressured to follow through with the electric shocks or they found it to be morally wrong and was able to speak up and withdraw, several participants would have disobeyed.

One of the most well-known experimentations in submission in psychology the famous Milgram obedience study conducted by Stanley Milgram, social psychologist who worked at Yale University during the 1960s, and the ethical guidelines that should have been integrated with his research. Stanley Milgram’s aim was to study whether the German population were predominantly compliant to imposing figures which was a collective thought for the Nazi massacres that happened during the course of World War II. Milgram’s study dishonored the regulations and procedures for moral human experiments brought on by the British Psychological Society.

Stanley Milgram, one of the most influential social psychologists of his time was particularly fascinated by the dangers of group behaviors. His experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies in history. The aim of the experiment was to identify the effects of obedience under authority. An example of influential behavior is during the war years where thousands of Jews were prosecuted by the Nazi’s. Milgram wanted to look further into the Nazi’s behavior. The results

As I watched the Milgram Experiment I found it to be extremely interesting. This is a test to see how far a person is willing to go to obey orders. In this particular experiment, one participant was assigned the duty to recite words that were said to him by the other participant. The other person’s job was to see if the

Stanley Milgram managed to conduct several experiments that reveal the distinct features of the members of our society. He questioned how millions of ordinary people in Germany could obey the immoral commands of the Nazi government and conducted the experiment exploring the mechanisms of human obedience to authorities. Though Milgram’s experiment has provoked a huge amount of criticism, the analysis of internal and external validity, ethical issues, and the contribution of the experiment to modern science reveals the significance of the findings of the study.

In the journal article “A Study of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram from Yale University 1963, many people from all occupations that heard about Milgram’s study have mixed feelings on whether or not the study was ethical. These debates on deciding if the study was ethical or not, more specifically lead to several questions regarding the participant’s psychological reactions and if they were provided a chance to withdraw from the study. The study’s  administrators used the power of an authority figure with wording and appearance to ensure the completion of the study. When reading the journal article myself, in my personal opinion I believe that the study was in fact ethical for various reasons.