The Purpose Of The Milgram Experiments

The social science “Milgram Experiments” were used to discover of the people would willingly hurt another person because someone of authority told them to do it but the participants were told that the purpose of the experiment was to study memory with punishments. Ethic and moral dilemmas appeared during the experiment that criticized the research and its methods because of its deception and stress that it puts on the volunteers. There are multiple reasons why the experiment could be used to show the problems with trying to execute social science research.
The “Milgram Experiments” true purpose was to see if ordinary people would electrically shock others because an authority figure told them to do it, the experiment was to test if regular
Another ethical issue of the experiment was that some of the participants were stressed and tense throughout the duration of the research. Many of the volunteers wanted to leave, told the “professor” that they had to leave because they didn’t want to cause another person pain (Video, 4:39), or continually asked during the reenactment clip if they could leave. There were also moral reasons that the participants believed that could cause serious harm to another person during the experiment, which could affect them emotionally. There is also another moral dilemma that could be seen as an issue during the experiment such as the “professor” also encourages, or pressures, the volunteers to continue with the experiment for the sake of science, making the partaker continue with the experiment despite their comfortableness. The “professor” in the experiment tells the participant that for every wrong question that the “learner” gives they must go up a notch on the intensity of the electric shocks, putting them in a moral dilemma without telling them the true nature of the experiments or that they shocks and sounds of pain they hear are fake