Was the Milgram Experiment Ethical or Valid? In 1961‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment on a group’s obedience to authority. This experiment has encountered intense scrutiny ever since its findings were first published in 1963; many people question the ethics and validity of the experiment. Multitudes of researchers have taken it upon themselves to determine the answers to the questions (McLeod). Based on new guidelines for ethics‚ Stanley Milgram’s experiment
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Milgram (1963) claimed that destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This essay will first consider what is meant by destructive obedience and briefly look at Milgram’s work. It will then look at what is inferred by situational factors‚ focusing on conformity‚ socialisation
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Argument Synthesis Option #1: Stanley Milgram vs. Diana Baumrind At very young ages‚ most of us are taught the importance of being obedient. Many of us may have even been rewarded for obedience and punished for disobedience. For most of us‚ being obedient creates a sense of accomplishment and pride‚ but what happens when we are put in a position where obeying a certain order results with violating ones own moral beliefs? In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of psychology at Yale University
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Milgram’s infamous 1963 study into the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich
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Kevin Browning Hired Guns What are the limits of the government‚ which the majority cannot override? Does the government have the right to conscript its citizens and send them off to war? This raises the question of consent. Do we own ourselves? Does conscription violate the right of self possession? Mr. Sandel goes into great detail about Locks Government by Consent. The question of conscription or a draft by the military‚ is this action morally or ethically correct? It is discussed
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In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would
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Existence of Obedience and Liberty Nadia Boulanger the famous French Composer said‚ “A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.” Through this statement we learn that obedience must be coupled with liberty in order to make something or someone great. This will not be an essay supporting disobedience but will in fact show how the greatest obedience is chosen; not forced upon an individual but the joining of obedience and liberty. In the article “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley
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Milgram (1963) vs. Meeus and Raaijmakers (1985) (12 marks) The aim of both studies was to test obedience. Meeus and Raaijmakers were testing psychological violence‚ where Milgram was testing physical violence. The procedure was similar‚ as in both experiments the participants were paid volunteers and had to give an increasing punishment. The Dutch experiment was conducted in a natural experiment though and and Milgram’s one - in a university. The results of both studies support each other’s
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I think the Milgram and Zimbardo’s results is a good theory for the Holocaust. When the two‚ Instructor and Student‚ were in role play for every wrong answer the instructor would shock the student. At times when the instructor would say‚ “I don’t want to do this” or “I can’t do this” shows he does have a consequence‚ but he continued to still push the trigger. Although it was just an actor playing the role and no one was being shocked it is terrible to see how he continued to go on with the test
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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