Compare And Contrast Milgram And Zimbardo

We are all born animals and savages at heart. People who are just ‘following orders’ by doing sadistic and terrible things are showing their true form. These were some of the reasons behind the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments. These experiments were to test people’s obedience to authority - or a man in a lab coat. Milgram’s experiment was the first of its kind, seeing as how similar experiments were repeated afterward, and he wanted to prove that authority was a major part in why people listened to others. This experiment was started after a german soldier claimed he shouldn’t be prosecuted for torturing people during World War Two because he was ‘just following orders’. Of course, this experiment has been questioned over and over. Psychologists