many experiments were conducted to prove or disprove that “behavior is contagious”. (Social Psychology) Experiments such as Soloman Asch’s Conformity Experiment‚ Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment and Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment all impacted modern psychology. These experiments proved that behavior is infectious and what some do impacts what others will do. In this paper‚ I will show that it is true‚ “behavior is contagious.” (Social Psychology) Solomon Asch Conformity experiment was conducted
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Mifflin Harcourt‚ 2009. 167-95. Print. Milgram‚ Stanley. “The Perils of Obedience.” Current Issues and Enduring Questions. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford-St Martin’s‚ 2005. 883-95. Waller‚ James. "Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil." Perpetrators of Genocide: an Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Spokane‚ WA: Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate‚ 2002. 18-21. Print. Zimbardo‚ Phillip. “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum:
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a controversial topic. Throughout the article “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ people become aware of the necessity to obey higher authority no matter what pain they are causing to another person. Throughout the article we find out that social life is about obeying others and how conservative people who obey are threats to society and how humanists are individuals. Stanley Milgram sets up a study to see how far people will go to obey what they are being told to
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explanations of why people obey It has been found by Milgram that people obey for four main reasons these are; legitimate authority‚ the momentum of compliance‚ the agentic shift and passivity. The first reason that Milgram found that people obey is because people feel like they have to obey someone if they have a high social status or a highly respected job‚ this is called legitimate authority. Bickman (1974) supported this theory by doing an experiment on the streets of New York. Bickman had three
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Question One There were many ethical violations that occurred in the Zimbardo Prison Study. The first violation was deception. Although Zimbardo got consent from the participant‚ he did not fully explain what the participant would be going through. They were told that they would be participating in a mock prison study. However‚ they were not told that they would be arrested at their homes and striped searched upon arrival at the prison site. It is very important that you inform participants
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Conformity and Obedience The desire to be accepted and belong to a group is an undeniable human need. But how does this need affect an individual? Social psychologists have conducted numerous experiments and concluded that‚ through various forms of social influence‚ groups can change their members ’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behavior. In her essay "Group Minds‚" Doris Lessing discusses our paradoxical ability to call ourselves individuals and our inability to realize that groups define
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justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported after they
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In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram was interested in the psychology behind people who blindly follow authoritative figures. His interest in this idea peaked because of WWII and the atrocities practiced by the subordinates of Hitler. As a way to test this question‚ Milgram came up with a university study that would put people’s conscience to the test. This observation of the human mind would lay a groundwork and test the boundaries of understanding the thought process behind genocides. It did not examine
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. London: Penguin‚ 2001. Goldhagen‚ Daniel Jonah. Hitler ’s Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. 1 ed. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House‚ 1996. Milgram‚ Stanley. Obedience to Authority an Experimental View. London: Tavistock‚ 1974. Staub‚ Ervin. "The Psychology of Bystanders‚ Perpetrators‚ and Heroic Helpers." In Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust‚ edited by Leonard S
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been experiments that relate to the social problems of obedience and authority. The Milgram Experiment‚ The Good Samaritan Experiment‚ and The Stanford Prison Experiment are all examples that focus on social problems‚ situational power‚ and human nature. A common conclusion among the examples is that a situation has the power to make ordinary people do unthinkable things. The Milgram Experiment was conducted by a Yale University Psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ in July‚ 1961. The experiment was set
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