The Milgram / Burger Experiment And The Asch Experiment And Group Minds

However, in the Burger experiment, the maximum shock level available for use was 150 vaults, unlike the 450 volts available for use in the Milgram obedience experiment. Also, all of the participants in the Burger study were carefully screened, with hopes of weaning out persons who were familiar with Mailgram’s research or likely to experience adverse effects after participating in Burger’s study. After the screening process, participants were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions. Participants in the base condition were escorted to the lab and introduced to the experimenter and confederate. Similar to the Milgram study, the experimenter and confederate followed a script. When the participant seemed uneasy and began to resist, the experimenter insisted on the participant’s cooperation. The script for the confederate included shrieks of pain and verbal phrases of distress. The experiment ended when the participant either refused to go on with the experiment or after the participant administered the 150-volt shock (Burger, 2009). The results showed that more than half of the participants in the base condition attempted to go on with the experiment after the 150-volt shock, thus supporting the

Individuals often yield to conformity when they are forced to discard their individual freedom in order to benefit the larger group. Despite the fact that it is important to obey the authority, obeying the authority can sometimes be hazardous especially when morals and autonomous thought are suppressed to an extent that the other person is harmed. Obedience usually involves doing what a rule or a person tells you to but negative consequences can result from displaying obedience to authority for example; the people who obeyed the orders of Adolph Hitler ended up killing innocent people during the Holocaust. In the same way, Stanley Milgram noted in his article ‘Perils of Obedience’ of how individuals obeyed authority and

Today our society raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. We are taught that we should all do what we’re told and that the people that are disobedient are almost always bad people. Society tells us this, but it is not true. Most people will even be obedient to the point of causing harm to others, because to be disobedient requires the courage to be alone against authority. In Stanley Milgram’s "Perils of Obedience" experiment, his studies showed that sixty percent of ordinary people would agree to obey an authority figure even to the point of severely hurting another human being. (Milgram 347).

During the Milgram experiment, many of the participants followed through with the experiment and followed orders against their better judgement. During the experiment, each participant looked at the conductor of the experiment the very first time they heard a noise from the other room after administering the electro shock. After giving the conductor a look showing their concern, the conductor then tells them to continue on in the experiment. After being told to continue, all of the participants follow orders and continue.

This report will compare two experiments; Asch 's conformity experiment and Milgram 's obedience experiment. The two experiments will be compared for validity and their ethics. In addition, this report will take into consideration Zimbardo 's Stanford Prison experiment and the Lucifer Effect. To analyse how obedience and conformity theories can be used as an example of why good people can turn bad. This report will also look at how obedience and conformity can be applied to the criminal justice system.

Yale University Psychologist, Stanley Milgram (1963) demonstrated an experiment called the Milgram's experiment. It was meant to be about the study of obedience and what people would do when others were in pain, demand to stop the experiment or continue following orders. It took place in 1961 a year after world war II, Milgram wanted to make inquires about obedience and if that was the reason for the nazi killings, due to the Germans listening to their orders no matter what the situation was. "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram, 1974). Milgram chose 2 participants at a time one was a teacher and the other would be the learner the teacher would

The Milgram Shock experiment was one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted, and also the most controversial. In the experiment, two subjects were studied. Through random selection, each subject was chosen to be either a teacher or a student. However, the choice was not random, and the student was actually an actor who would pretend to be the student. In the experiment, the teacher would read out certain words and have the student repeat them back as a sort of memory game.

Milgram’s study aimed to discover whether obedience to authority is beyond peoples control in certain situations - something which he later called the ‘agentic state’ a state of behaviour allowing the subject to obey someone else’s will. Milgram’s study has 18 variations, which aim to see if different set-ups of the experiment affect the results. In his original experiment, which took place in a laboratory at Yale university, the participant took on the role of the ‘teacher’, who was ordered by an ‘experimenter’ to administer electric shock’s from 30v to 450v to a ‘learner’, both of which were played by actors. The teacher and experimenter were separated by a wall from the learner. The learner was first asked to memorise a list of word pairs,

Instead of right or wrong, should or not, people followed authority, follow who are ahead, on top of their role in society. More importantly, it established by encouraging individuals to conform and obey social norms in formal or informal ways. It also connected to what we learned from the functionalist perspective, learned how to became a part of this society that we don’t really think about it personally, we still follow instructions when it’s wrong, or ridiculous, we won’t behave wired and disobey orders. Obey social norms in formal or informal ways; we are being controlled for sociological purpose. Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, is always going along with peers, it influence this experiment, those participants, and the result, which shows a really surprising but true fact. Obedience is the compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure; it’s a form of social influence in which a person accepts instructions or orders from an authority figure. As we see from the experiment, most of people asked about if they should stop because the “student” might die because of the experiment. But when authority, the scientist told they no needed to stop, they continue without think about the consequence anymore. Thus, obedience is

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” (Albert Einstein). The result of people who aren’t independent is more negative than positive. The articles including “Herd Behavior”, “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, "Teenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Say", and “Why Do People Follow the Crowd” all show evidence towards How people are influenced. Following the crowd is one of the main results of influence people have on others. Influence naturally developed in the human brain is based on the natural inclination to follow the group as seen in teenagers.

I believe that individuals in collectivistic cultures tend to obey an authority figure more than individuals in individualistic cultures. In collectivism, cooperation is the norm; people are expected to conform to the community, and interdependence is highly valued. The interest of the community is always taken into consideration when problems arise, when decisions are made, and when conflicts erupt. However, having read about the obedience experiments performed at Yale in the 1960s by professor Stanley Milgram, I am not sure that this particular dimension of culture is the only factor that is to be considered when deciding who would obey to an authority figure. I believe that other dimensions of culture need to be taken into consideration

Does the obedience part of our nature and we have to go along with it? If people be questioned “Do you obey the authority to against the morality?” Many people would say “No” but what will really happened? The experiment of Milgram shows us a result of the nature of obedience. “The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.” And the experiment began in July 1961, and he found volunteer from different levels of the society. “They measured the willingness of study participants,

Obedience is psychology means when a person follows an order from an authority figure. This may mean what they are doing is wrong but they still do it anyways and this is a form of social influence. This is similar to conformity but differs by it being from a group instead of an authority figure. You are taking an order from someone, the order is from an authority figure, and this is all based on social power. An example of obedience in my everyday life is when you are simply going to school. You follow the professor’s instructions. If they tell you that you have an exam, you take the exam. If they tell you to write something down, you do it. We follow these instructions because we are taught from the beginning that these people are the authority.

The Milgram experiment is probably one of the most well-known experiments of the psy-sciences. (De Vos, J. (2009). Stanley Milgram was a psychologist from Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. Milgram selected people for his experiment by newspaper advertising. He looked for male participants to take part in a study of learning at Yale University.

Obedience is a significant part of human nature. Whether or not people realize it, they obey many different people and even objects in their everyday lives. Some obvious instances where people obey others are police officers, teachers, and parents. Other instances where people obey, but may not realize it are road signs, laws, and social norms. When people obey, do they obey by choice or do they obey by compulsion? People obey by compulsion over choice because of the threat to their authority and freedom, as well as the morals they live by which is shown in the results of the Stanford and Milgram experiments.