Stanley Milgram’s (1963), Behavioral Study of Obedience measured how far a normal person go beyond their major moral character to obey authority to punish another person, and at what point would they refuse to obey and end their involvement. He selected participants for his experiment through advertisements in the newspapers. Milgram continued key to obedience had slightly nothing to do with the authority figure’s approach or style. Rather, “he argued that people follow an authority figure’s commands when that person’s authority is seen as legitimate”. J. Burger (2009). Milgram was also a teacher, in the field of Social psychology “first at Yale during the period of 1960-1963 and then at Harvard through 1963-1967) and finally at the City University of New York, (1967 thru 1984)” J Burger (20). As a teacher he was very involved up close and personal with his students. Openly praising students for their insights, oddly his tongue was sharp and cutting enough to end any …show more content…
In supposition Stanley Milgram conducted an research concentrating on the struggle between obedience to authority and personal morality or integrity. Milgram had less debatable, work such as, the small-world method (the source of "Six Degrees of Separation"), the lost-letter technique, mental maps of cities, cyprinoids, the familiar stranger, and an experiment testing the effects of televised antisocial behavior. Stanley Milgram’s explorations began at Yale University, he studied at Harvard and the City University of New York. As a teacher he was respected and held many discussions with his students. Research and experimentation requires the ability to investigate theories, which can sometimes be costly, difficult and stressful. The results of one’s research can be experimented on for