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    orders. A Few Good Men was a critically acclaimed movie and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Similarly, authors Erich Fromm and Stanley Milgram, wrote essays that explored the morals behind obedience, and how disobedience of immoral commands can bring betterment to others. Although A Few Good Men presents disobedience as being a vice, evidence from Milgram and Fromm suggest that disobedience can bring about an improvement on current conditions. In A Few Good Men, both Lance Cpl. Harold W.

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    on, it made me really mad because I could never do that. Even if he wasn’t really hurt, it still aggravated me that nobody stopped to help this guy. Regan Henrickson 6th period Abnormal Psychology September 24, 2015 The Stanley Milgram Experiment This experiment by Stanley Milgram was about obedience. He wanted to express the conflict between obedience and authority. He put an ad in the newspaper for male participants to take part in a study for learning at Yale. The experiment was that the participant

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    When trying to propose all alternative social psychological research project, I found it very difficult. With everything I came up with, the same issues within the Milgram experiment started to come up in the ideas that I had. The main thing to get away from is deceiving the participants. I know this is very unethical, but I’m not sure how to steer away from it. I’m not positive that you could conduct an experiment such as this one without somewhat using some form of deception. One thing I can think

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    Cruelty The amount of cruelty one possess varies individually depending on the situations an individual has experienced throughout their life. This is why Milgram received such shocking results in his obedience experiment and why only a few reacted in Darley and Latane 's studies. Although cruelty is within from birth, the test subjects in Milgram 's, Darley and Latane 's experiment had no intentions of being cruel because they believed they were simply following orders and still fighting a personal

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    “Stanley Milgram Experiment” vs Lord of the Flies On a deserted island a boy is tied up, and beaten for no reason while others stand by to watch. One man repeatedly shocks another man, even though he knows that it will be fatal. They both scream for mercy; one is spared, but the other is not so lucky. The “Stanley Milgram Experiment” and the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding both show how people will listen to authority even if they know what they are doing is causing harm. In Lord of the

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    totally catch the layman 's creative energy as the submission tests led by Stanley Milgram. As one of only a handful couple of mental analyses to have such a consideration getting criticalness, Milgram found a concealed quality of the human mind that appeared to demonstrate a shrouded insane in even the most coy individual. Milgram presents his startling discoveries in "The Perils of Obedience". By first investigating what Milgram is endeavoring to find in his examination of acquiescenceis that it is

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    Stanley Milgram was born August 15, 1933 in New York City. He was born to his parents Samuel and Adele Milgram, who were Jewish immigrants. Milgram always showed interest in science even at a young age. Later he completed high school in just three years. Milgram attended Queens College and graduated in 1954 with his Bachelors in Political Science. He continued his education, but instead in the field of psychology, at Harvard University. At Harvard University his mentor was Gordon Allport, a famous

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    Stanley Milgrams ‘obedience study’ in the 1960’s (Banyard, 2012) played a significant role in the historical timeline of Psychological research however, the very nature of his work raised many questions about the undue stress it caused to participants. It was those questions that heightened the awareness of ethics in research and constituted the necessity for more creative studies. Even Charles Hofling et al. (cited in DE100, Chapter 2, p.85) (a) attempt at replicating Milgrams

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    and wrong conduct. Simply identify what the essay will discuss i.e your experiment etc. Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist, conducted series of experiments on the effect of obedience, researching to what degree people would obey higher authority figures and participate in unethical conduct, regardless of the consequences. relationship between obedience to authority and personal conscience in 1963. Milgram wanted to understand what caused the ordinary German officers/soldiers to commit such atrocities

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    his article "The Perils of Obedience”, Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to determine if the innate desire to obey an authority figure overrides the morality and consciousness that had been already established in a person. After Milgram conducted his experiments he concluded that 60% of the subjects complied to an authority figure rather than their own sympathy. There was additional testing outside the US which showed an even higher compliance rate. Milgram reasoned that the subjects enjoyed the

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