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    Milgram Obedience Experiments According to the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, obedience is a form of influence in which a person yields to instructions or orders from a person of authority. There have been many studies completed on what causes obedience and the dynamics. The most famous of these experiments could possibly be the Milgram Obedience Experiments.This may be one of the most controversial papers due to lack of ethics and the results from this study. In this paper, we will go over the

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    - The Milgram experiment was a test created by the Yale University psychologist named Stanley Milgram in 1961. The experiment was to see how far ordinary people would go to obey an authority figure. The participants of this test were men of different backgrounds, they were told that the experiment was to find the effects of punishment on learning. Each participant was labeled as either an “teacher” or an “learner”. Teachers would give learner question and if answered incorrectly the teacher was to

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    Was the Milgram Experiment Ethical or Valid? In 1961, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment on a group’s obedience to authority. This experiment has encountered intense scrutiny ever since its findings were first published in 1963; many people question the ethics and validity of the experiment. Multitudes of researchers have taken it upon themselves to determine the answers to the questions (McLeod). Based on new guidelines for ethics, Stanley Milgram’s experiment

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    did the subordinates of Adolph Hitler blindly follow his immoral orders?” Well, that is exactly why Stanley Milgram conducted experiments to test how far an ordinary person would go to inflict pain onto a stranger. The Nazi killing was brutal and inhumane, but the people conflicting death upon thousands felt no remorse or guilt so the Milgram Experiment was used to finally get answers. Milgram concluded that many will go to extreme lengths to obey authority and tend to believe what they are doing is

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    why Stanley Milgram conducted experiments to test how far an ordinary person would inflict pain onto a stranger. The Nazi killing was brutal and inhumane but the people conflicting death upon thousands felt no remorse or guilt so the Milgram Experiment was used to finally get answers. Milgram concluded that many will go to extreme lengths to obey authority and tend to believe what they are doing is the good or right thing to do because it is their order. Milgram’s Experiment: What was the

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    by which is shown in the results of the Stanford and Milgram experiments. One of those psychological experiments that show how people obey by choice is called the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment had volunteer college students play the role of prison guards and prisoners. All participants had the option to drop out of the experiment whenever they pleased and were paid for participating. Phillip Zimbardo, who conducted the experiment, played two roles which were the psychologist and the

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    Each of the two experiments carried out by Milgram and Zimbardo had questionable ethics in their procedure. Ethics is defined as “Moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2016). In psychology, ethics are moral guidelines when conducting social experiments such as these, so that the dignity of each participant is respected and preserved. This piece of work will evaluate the perceived ethics in Milgram’s experiment of human obedience

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    The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment are substantial examples of how much the environment controls individual behavior and how obedient people are to authority, despite their moral beliefs. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass portrays such examples of how it relates to the experiment. Even though the details of his life as a slave occurred over a hundred years ago, his findings concur with that of the actions taken in

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    Multiple arguments are made about Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments. Diana Baumrind, author of “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” and a former psychologist at the University of California in Berkeley, strongly believes that Milgram’s experiments should not have taken place. Baumrind focuses on the aftermath of the experiment and how even when subjects were told that the screams they heard were merely recordings, participants experienced lasting effects (Baumrind 90). Ian

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    Milgram experiment There are many questions as to how and why Hitler convinced a whole population to start a genocide and torture millions and millions of people. Moreover, I am going to talk about an experiment that discovered these kinds of questions. This experiment was made by Stanley Milgram The rules of Milgram experiment is easy, it is simply made to see how far a person could go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Stanley Milgram, in 1960 went to Harvard to

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