millions were able to take such horrible orders and carry them out just because they were told to. In recent years we have been able to turn the findings of the Milgram Experiment and a experiment done by a group of students at Stanford to try and understand more how people make choices. When you look at Frankl’s book and the two experiments it can be hard to decipher what each really means‚ if humans do have the power of choice‚ but when one can look at it closer what it all boils down to is just
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help of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo’s research on obedience
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put in a certain situation‚ they would always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. However‚ social experiments such as the Good Samaritan Experiment (Darley and Batson‚1973)‚ the Milgram Shock Experiment (1963)‚ and the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo‚1973) give psychologists results that say otherwise. The majority of the unknowing participants in these three experiments showed a surprising lack of compassion for a fellow human who (as far as the participant knew) was in pain or
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ethical cost can mean a cost to an individual taking part in research. Examples of this include Milgrams study on obedience. There was a number of ethical costs within Milgrams research‚ for instance one major ethical cost within Milgrams research is that he failed to protect his participants from both physical and psychological harm. Milgram failed to do so as the participants that took part within Milgrams study experiences severe amounts of physical and psychological harm; two of which had seizures
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Nearly all people submit to authority‚ whether it be unknowingly or because of the position one is engaging in. Depending on the outcome‚ many either choose to deny or accept the consequences they have endured from their actions. People have a mind set on how their life will be lived and who will dictate that life‚ but a person’s morals could be tested if an authority figure ceases to challenge those set morals. There are countless of different occurrences to which people can submit to authority
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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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social influence (e.g.‚ Asch‚ 1952; Milgram‚ 1974; Zimbardo‚ 1971) tell us about group effects on individual behaviour? Social influence is the effect one person or a group has on the attitudes or behaviour of another. There are several different kinds of social influence. This essay the focuses on conformity - yielding publicly to group pressure‚ and sometimes yielding privately also (e.g. Asch (1951)); also on obedience – behaving as instructed‚ for example Milgram (1974). Studies of these kinds
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information-processing individuals‚ albeit operating in a social context. Cognitive social psychology aims to investigate the thoughts processes (cognitions) of individuals‚ the main methods of doing this are experimentation and social psychometric testing. Experiments involve controlled scenarios in which the researcher manipulates the variables they want to test. Social psychometric testing involves questionnaires that are filled in by participants to test their responses to specific questions. Both these provide
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understand the reasons why people obey authority‚ it will show an evaluation of Milgram’s study of obedience‚ discussing the ethical issues raised from the research and assessing whether the knowledge gained about human behaviour justifies Milgram’s experiments. Most people like to feel that they make their own decisions‚ but in reality they are often just ‘conforming’ by adjusting their actions‚ attitudes or opinions so that they fit in with those of other people‚ or just simply to ‘go with the flow’
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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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