The ethical violations found in the original experiment (1962) included participants (teacher) giving other participants (learner) dangerous electrical shocks at a very high voltage increasing all the way up to 450 volts. The experimenter (authority) informed both the teacher and the learner participants that although the volts may be painful‚ they are not dangerous. Even though the “teacher” could hear the “learner” yell and scream as they got shocked each time‚ the “teacher” continued with the
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SUMMARY OF MILGRAM ARTICLE The Milgram (1963) article is about an experiment that was conducted on the Yale University campus on obedience. A newspaper ad and mailers were sent out to advertise for participants for an experiment that offered 4.50 just to show up and brought in 40 participants ranging in age‚ education level and occupation. The participants were told that the study had to do with memory and that one participant would be the learner and the other would be the teacher. The teacher
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English 1101-13 23 Febuary 2014 The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram In “The Perils of Obedience‚” Stanley Milgram develops a experiment that puts to test the the question ‚ “Will humans inflict extreme pain to others under the command of higher authority?”. The essay starts off with Milgram explaining the history of obedience by exhibiting the loyalness that was portrayed by followers in historical documents. The experiment that Milgram set up was simple. He elected an “experimenter” who
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order. For this reason‚ I chose an article about a reproduction of the Milgram study that took place in 1963 and established that people will go to extreme lengths to obey authority. The Holocaust was the motivation behind Milgram’s study and we are all knowledgeable of the atrocities ordered by Hitler (Simplepsychology‚ n‚d.). Would you deliver a shock to another human being? That question is the foundation of the study done by researchers at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Milgram Obedience Study In May of 1962 Stanley Milgram‚ a Social Psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted a study on “Obedience and Human Nature” that was influenced by his curiosity of the WWII German Nazi Holocaust and concentration camps. Milgram asked “How could it be‚ that ordinary German people could allow the extermination of the Jews” and wanted to know under what circumstances would a person disobey authority? The study took place in the greater New Haven area and consisted
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Behavioral Study of Obedience by Milgram (1963) Background: Some type of authority is necessary when humans live together and obedience is currently a very relevant concept. Throughout World War II‚ millions of people were killed through gas chambers and death camps. Although there was a mastermind behind the plan‚ there needed to be a huge amount of people to carry out the deeds. Some think that this is an ingrained behavior that can override ethical values‚ sympathy‚ and morality. Obedience should
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Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Milgram obedience study. Should the study have taken place? Milgram’s study is a very controversial study as it broke many ethical guidelines and has many methodological issues‚ but it also had many strengths. One strength of the Milgram study on obedience is that the experiment was reliable as it can be replicated and the results are consistent. The fact that the experiment was a Lab experiment makes the study even more reliable as lab experiments are
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to Pass on Responsibility The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley Milgram is one of the most studied experiments in American history due to its wide-ranging social implications. The study gained popular attention because it aimed to provide some insight as to why the Holocaust had escalated in such a way. The study was designed around testing the degree of inflicted pain strangers would give to others‚ under orders by an experimenter. Not only did the study defy what others predict would
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Milgram’s study of obedience to authority‚ and the ethical issues it raised for social psychologists The following essay will discuss psychologist Stanley Milgram’s study of obedience to authority‚ and will outline the ethical issues it raised for social psychologists. Milgram was inspired by the Nuremburg trials and the defense of many ex-nazis being that they were coerced into assisting the genocide by simply following orders from higher authority figures. Milgram set out to see if ordinary
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Milgram’s 1963 study was to see how far an ordinary person would go when asked to follow orders from an authority figure‚ even if it meant breaking their ethical code and harming another person. There were number of aspects of Milgram’s procedure. Firstly 40 male participants aged 20-50 were chosen by a volunteer sample as they replied to a local newspaper advert which was asking for people to take part in a study at Yale. The participants were paid $4.50 an hour and were told it was a study to find
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