The aim of 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
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Obedience to Authority and the obedience experiments that produced Stanley Milgram’s famous book have produced almost equal amounts of surprise‚ curiosity and criticism. The criticism of social psychologist John Darley and playwright Dannie Abse are each representative of the general criticism Milgram has received; Darley focuses on whether the study has any relevance to real world events (such as the Holocaust)‚ and Abse focuses on justification of the experiment‚ i.e. was the study worth doing in spite
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had been introduced by Stanley Milgram in 1963‚ who was a psychologist who wanted to understand why Nazi soldiers followed orders. Milgram argued that the soldiers were following orders through successive obedience and decided that it was the social situation of the time‚ that caused these normal soldiers to kill innocent people(Yogi‚2015). Milgram had used 40 male participants during his experiment who he paid $4 an hour for their time‚ who he told that the experiment would be about a “learning and
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Derren Brown recreated the Stanley Milgram Experiment. This experiment was used to see exactly how far someone is willing to go‚ to cause harm to someone else just because they are being told to do so. Each participant was told that the person in the other room was going to be asked a series of questions. The person in the other room was going to be required to remember the answers. If they didn’t remember the answers then the participant would shock them with up to 450 volts. The experiment’s goal
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Stanley Milgram Milgram‚ Stanley. Behavioral Study of Obedience (1963). Question? Why would people obey a legitimate authority figure even if they were asked to do something that was clearly and morally wrong? Hypothesis Milgram want to test the GADH (German’s Are Different Hypothesis)‚ which was currently being used by historians to explain the systematic destruction of millions of Jews‚ Poles and other’s in the 1930’s and 1940’s. This hypothesis maintains • Hitler could not have
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Stanley Milgram Stanley milgram: born august 15th‚ 1933. Died December 20th 1984 (aged 51) He was the middle of three children. Milgram attended James Monroe High School in New York City. He was also involved in his schools theatre productions‚ which later influenced the realistic experiences his subjects underwent in his experiments. Stanley Milgram attended Queens College in New York City. He then applied to Harvard’s department of social relations Ph.D. program‚ but was rejected on the basis
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words (this should be no more than 350 words). Milgram started his obedience study experiments in 1961.He was highly influenced by the defense of criminal Adolph Eichmann used second world war that he was simply following instruction when he ordered death of millions of jews. He carried out his experiment in Yale University to check whether people obey the orders of authority figure to cause pain to a stranger. The participants of this experiment were recruited through newspaper ads and each person
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Similarity #1. Participants in both studies had a difficult time ending their participation‚ and most continued all the way until the end. The reasons for this were similar in both studies. Similarity #2. Both Milgram and Zimbardo stated reported the effects of personality differences were very limited. For Zimbardo‚ the only personality characteristic that seemed to have any effect was authoritarianism; and this characteristic was important only for prisoner behavior. Those prisoners who were
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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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regret (often occurs with conformity) 1.2 Milgram’s Study of Obedience (1963) Aim: To investigate how far people will go in obeying an authority figure PROCEDURE Participants responded to a newspaper advert and were paid $4.50 to take part in an experiment. A participant is brought into the room where they meet another “participant” (actually an actor). Via a fixed lottery‚ the participant chooses the role of teacher and the actor the role of learner. The learner is strapped to a chair and had electrodes
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