The Milgram Experiment

The Milgram experiment was conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram in order to focus on the conflict between obedience to authority and to personal conscience. The experiment consisted of 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, and who’s jobs ranged from unskilled to professional. The roles of this experiment included a learner, teacher, and researcher. The participant was deemed the teacher and was in the same room as the researcher. The learner, who was also a paid actor, was put into the next room and strapped into an electric chair. The teacher administered a test to the learner, and for each question that was incorrect, the learner was to receive an electric shock by the teacher, increasing the level of shock each time. The shock generator ranged from

The Milgram Obedience Study was an experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1963 to observe how far people would obey instructions that resulted in harming another individual. The experiment consisted of a “learner” engaging in a memory task and a “teacher” testing the “learner” on the task, administering electrical shocks to the “learner” each time an incorrect answer was given; the electric shocks started out small from 15 volts, labeled as “SLIGHT SHOCK”, all the way to 450 volts, labeled as “X X X”—of course, that was what the participant was told. The true purpose of the experiment was not disclosed until after the experiment and the “random selection” of who would be the “teacher” or “learner” was rigged so that the participant was always the “teacher” and the “learner” was always an actor. The shocks, naturally, were never given to the “learner”, and the “learner” gave responses that were scripted, both in answers to the questions and in responses to the shocks.

Stanley Milgram writes about his shocking experiment in “Perils of Obedience.” Milgram writes on the behaviors that the people had during the experiment. Milgram had an experiment that involves two people. One person was a student and the other a teacher. The student was strapped into an electric chair and was required to answer certain questions. The teacher asked a certain word, and the student must know the pair that goes with it. If the student answered the question incorrectly, the teacher must shock the student. Each time the student answered a question incorrectly, the volts increase. Milgram was expecting the teachers to back out of the experiment once they saw the student in pain for the first time, but surprisingly enough, more than sixty percent of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and continued on with the experiment, reaching up to four-hundred-fifty volts. After three times of the four-hundred-fifty volt shock, the experiment was called to halt.

There is a vast amount of research that continues to prove the importance of situational factors in determining human behavior. One of the most profound experiments that helped to prove situational importance was the study conducted by Stanley Milgram. In his article, “The Perils of Obedience,” Stanley Milgram summarized his experiments on the effects of obedience to authority, even when the authority commanded the subject to harm another person.

The Milgram Experiment is one of the most famous studies in psychology. It was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist from Yale University. The purpose of the experiment was to study how far people would go in obeying an instruction from an authority figure if it involved hurting another person. Milgram wanted to study whether Germans were more obedient to authority as this was what people believed was the main reason for Nazi killings in World War II. 40 males were chosen to participate in the study, and were paid $4.50 for attending. The experiment was carried out as follows:

In 1984, after the trial of World War 2 criminal Adolph Eichmann, Stanley Milgram created an experiment where his starting hypothesis was to see if Germans had a character flaw which made them more obedient which correlated to the holocaust. He put an advertisement in the newspaper for volunteers for an educational experiment who would be paid on hour for $4.50. The experiment itself wasn’t real, but the participants didn’t know that it going in. The experiment was once they got into the “laboratory”, they picked from a hat and one would get “teacher” and the other “learner” but it is rigged so the participants will always get “teacher”. Jack William who is the experimenter takes the “learner” into a room to strap them into the shock machine while the “teacher” watches and at this time, the “teacher” is informed of the “learners” heart condition and Jack Williams pushes

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

In 1974 Stanley Milgram conducted the classic study of obedience to authority. The study looked into how far individuals would be willing to go, and were asked could they deliver increasingly devastating electric shocks to a fellow human being, as they were requested to do so by the professor in charge of the experiment.

Why do you think the Milgram experiment is so controversial? In the 1960’s the social psychology Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test the obedience on human beings, the main experiment is well known as the “Milgram’s Experiment”. The Milgram’s experiment consisted in applying certain amount of electrical shocks on the participants of the experiment, as a result for not follow the mandates, this seeking to measure the levels of obedience of those who participated and have an estimated. The controversial part comes with the fact that when the experiment is taken from an etic perspective, is seen that this kind of “test” puts in risk the participants’ psychology well being and their health status and also because the experiment did

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.”

Human beings are social species and from an early stage of their life they are trained to follow orders from an authority figure. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram was trying to show that people are more likely to obey orders when it comes from a higher authority figure even when it involves many immoral acts. The experiment involve a teacher who will give electric shock to a learner when he gives wrong answer. 65 percent of participants continued to give maximum amount of electric shock to the learner even after hearing them crying for help.

A particular experiment that I found intriguing so far in this class was “The Milgram Experiment,” which was conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1963. The whole experiment was based around obedience, particularly the conflict between obedience as related to authority and a person’s inner conscience (McLeod). Milgram got the idea for the study after the Nuremburg War Criminals trial since many of the ones that were being tried claimed to just be following orders from a higher authority (McLeod). This famous experiment took place soon after the trial of Adolf Eichmann which left Milgram with the question, “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following order? Could we call them Accomplices?”

In July 1961, American psychologist Stanley Milgram (Stanley Milgram), conducted an experiment at the University of Yale in the United States, in order to study the reaction of people when they are asked to execute orders of any power or authority, which conflict with their conscience. For the purposes of the experiment, Milgram published an advertisement in newspapers asking the voluntary participation of people, mostly students, who were asked for a small fee to participate in a psychological experiment on memory. He divided for the experiment the students into pairs, and after a virtual draw they undertook the role of either the tutor or the student. The "apprentice" was tied to an electric chair and they spent electrodes throughout his

Good evening everybody, I have decided to answer to question 1 for this week’s forum. Stanley Milgram’s experiment was interesting after skimming through a couple of sites. Milgram’s research included; experimenting male volunteers were told by an actor dressed in a white lab coat to read aloud pairs of words from a list someone in another room was to memorize and repeat (Chambliss). Within the experiment, shock treatment was utilized to help increasing the learning ability by flipping the switch. Milgram’s theory was to determine how far the higher authority can give his subordinate to complete tasks. My opinion regarding to experiments like those are still going on today, a similar concept like the military today has non shock treatment

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.