A Study Of Mermillod's High Level Of Obedience

Introduction
Summary
In 1965, Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment which mainly focused on the severity of the electric shock that a person would be willing to administer to another person based on the directions that were given by an authority figure (Milgram, 1965). The researchers who were apart of this study expected anyone who participated would go beyond 150 volts shock point. The “victim” stated they no longer wanted to participate in the experiment. In 1965, Milgram reported that this study had a high level of obedience. Milgram (1965), stated that regardless of the participant’s protests, majority of the individuals completed the entire experiment. Level of obedience shown in the experiment was meaningfully higher than the
A preitraumatic stress test was administered after the experiment and it was shown that the participants had higher levels of preitraumatic distress at the end of the experiment than they did at beginning of the experiment. It was reported that 84 percent of the participants complied fully. It was determined by Mermilliod et al., (2015), that coercive pressure is not essential to get individuals to obey, increased levels of coercive pressure effects in higher levels of
Stanley Milgram’s experiments had a great impact on the modern experiment that was performed by Mermillod, Marchand, Lepage, Bague, and Danbrun in (2015). Also, Mermillod, Marchand, Lepage, Bague, and Danbrun (2015) talk about a discussion that regards the social significance of Milgram’s experiments, they also mentioned that recent research shows that destructive obedience is more meaningful and important (Mermillod, Marchand, Lepage, Bague, and Danbrun 2015). They also talked about the takeover viewpoint of how individuals are obedient due to positive conformity to the authority’s commands, recent research demonstrated that individuals to be obedient based on an identification with the experimenter and the purpose of the experiment (Mermillod et al., 2015). Milgram’s pervious experiment was also used by Mermillod et al., (2015) in the study they