The Milgram Experiment: Change To Ordinary Location

The Milgram Experiment on Obedience to Authority Figures Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience is one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority figures focuses on the morally ambiguous line between obedience to authority and personal conscience. The Milgram Experiment is involved in many different aspects of history and what it means to be human, which this paper will attempt to describe.

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

The ethical treatment with the Milgram Obedience Experiment was one of many, turning points in the stricter laws on human research. However, the experiment did lay a path for research into the psyche of human behavior and obedience, when coaxed under deviate authority figure. How far would we allow ourselves to participate in wrong doings, before morally stopping?

The Milgram experiment illustrates people 's reluctance to confront those who abuse power. By recruiting and deceiving people of all different backgrounds, he manipulated them into using punishment on people’s ability to learn. The Milgram experiment helps psychologists and sociologists explain the reasoning behind knowingly conflicting pain for a certain outcome. Milgram contributed path-breaking experiments towards the research between obedience to authority. He furthered knowledge in social networks and urban psychology.

With this analysis of the observation, the results are consistent with the results from the Milgram experiment, finished 10 years earlier in 1961, which saw the behavior and willingness of ordinary people to fulfilled orders by an administrator, or an authority figure, even when what they were asked to do appeared to be agonizing to another participant, who unknown to those being studied was a paid actor. Even when participants felt uncomfortable with the continuation of the experiment, the scientist in the room urged them to continue in order to obtain conclusive result from the

When individuals abandon their own freedom for the benefit of the larger group, they are no longer individuals but products of conformity. Obedience to authority can become dangerous when morals and independent thought are stifled to the point that harm is inflicted upon another person. "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram reports on his controversial experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders, even if carrying out those orders caused serious harm to others. This experiment caused a lot of controversy and one woman in particular believed that this experiment was immoral. Diana Baumrind's "Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience" says that Milgram

The experiment undertaken by Stanley Milgram in 1963 was supposed to answer some questions about obedience and raised some questions and answered some. At the time, that Milgram underwent the experiment, a Nazi war criminal was being trialed. Milgram wanted this experiment to answer whether this Nazi criminal and his followers were just accomplices to Hitler during the Holocaust or did they have some responsibility to it as well.

In the movie The Experimenter, we saw Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment. The objective of his experiment was to see if authority affects people, if they will so something they are not willing to do just because of the authority. The hypothesis was that authority definitely has an influence on people doings. In the experiment, the people did not want to continue “shocking” the person in the other room but, because they apparent doctor would say to continue on they would do so. Milgram is Jewish which is what brought him to making this experiment happen. The basis of the research is he wanted to examine 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.

Milgram and Compliance “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” This is a direct quote from the Milgram Experiment, a well known experiment done at Yale University New Haven, Connecticut. The Milgram Experiment is an experiment, showing how people respond and give authority to figures even though they may or not be in authority at all. Many physiological discoveries and feats today came from the Milgram Experiment.

One conclusion is that most people are willing to do whatever an authority figure tells them to do. Most people believe that an authority figure probably knows more than they do so they are willing to do what authority figures say. Another important conclusion from his experiment is that people are easily deceived. They are willing to look past their own moral judgements and do what they are told to do. They believe in what an authority figure says even if it is not true. A third conclusion about human behavior is that there is no exact personality trait that is linked with defiance or obedience. This means that our view of authority is most likely learned through observational learning. It is engrained in children to listen to authority figures. Through school, work, and our parents people’s behavior toward authority figures are molded. Those are the three most important conclusions about human behavior that were gained through Milgram’s

The results showed that two-thirds of the participants continued on as ordered to the 450volts and the other ones shocked the learner to 300 volts. Milgram tested 636 people in 18 different variations of the experiment. He changed location conditions, the number of teachers, whether or not the teacher (participant) was touched, and changed the clothing of the experimenter (put on a lab coat). Ordinary people can carry out orders or even cause extreme harm to another individual if given by a person of authority. Being obedient is ingrained into us from an early age.

Milgram’s experiment was an experiment that tested whether people would people would administer shock to another person even though the person receiving the shock would refuse to participate. During the experiment, Milgram would have the subject be the teacher and the other person people the student. While Milgram believed the experiment produced great results, a lady named Diana Baumrind believed the experiment should have not been conducted at all. Baumrind believed that Milgram’s experiment was not the best experiment because it still needed somethings to be worked out before conducting. There were many things in Milgram’s experiment that raised some red flags. In discussion of Milgram’s experiment, many of

2. In the film The Power of the Situation, various social experiments that examined human conformity were shown. Of these experiments, the Milgram Experiment, was conducted with a focus on obedience to an authority figure, and one’s own conscience. This experiment was brought about in order to attempt to confirm Nazi soldier’s testimonials that “obedience,” or “following orders” was the reason they committed their crimes. Within the experiment itself, Milgram had three people involved, the learner (working with Milgram) who was supposedly hooked up to a machine that was to deliver shocks when the switch was hit by the teacher, who was a random person selected for the experiment.

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.

Milgrams study proved it is easier to resist orders from an authority figure if they are not close by. In the study when the experimenter instructed and prompted the teacher by telephone from another room, obedience decreased to 20.5%. As opposed to the 65% which was the obedience rate in the original experiment. Other studies that show legitimate authority plays a vital role when talking about obedience are, Bickman (1974) and Bushman (1988). Both studies show how members of the public are more likely to obey to a request from someone in uniform, as opposed to someone without again linking in with legitimate authority.