carried out the slaughter of the Jews ruthless in nature or were they responding normally like any other human being when given an order by an authority figure? A movie titled A Few Good Men sheds light on this question with the help of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo’s research on obedience
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bad behavior. Personality screening doesn’t prevent the bad behaviour from occurring in the first place. Second‚ research has shown that situational characteristics have dramatic and sometimes disturbing effects on individual behaviour. Stanley Milgram famously demonstrated that people are willing to compromise their personal values - going so far as to inflict life-threatening physical pain on others - when instructed to do so by someone posing as a doctor. Philip Zimbardo‚ in his iconic "Stanford
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In 1971‚ in the basement of the psychology department of Stanford University‚ Northern California a mock prison was created. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo placed an advert in the Palo Alto Times newspaper‚ asking for volunteers to study the psychological effects of prison life (Zimbardo‚ 1971). Only seeking male college students‚ over 70 volunteers applied. All of which went through strict screening tests to eliminate volunteers with psychological problems‚ physical and mental illnesses‚ also a history
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English 1A 20 June 2012 Sphere of Authority Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ stunned the world when he stated that “perhaps the most fundamental lesson of our study is that ordinary people doing their jobs‚ and without particular hostility on their part‚ can become agents in a terrible destructive process.” Milgram’s stunning conclusions‚ which were derived from his experiments‚ proved that obedience is one of the basic elements in the structure of social life. The proximately of the victim
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“Is research into conformity and obedience worthwhile? Showing you have considered both points of view” Conformity is the ‘tendency for people to adapt the behaviour‚ attitudes and values of a reference group’. However‚ obedience is a type of social influence whereby somebody acts in response to a direct order from a figure with perceived authority. There is also the implication that the person receiving the order is made to respond in a way that they would not have otherwise have done without the
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the men obey the authority figure by doing cruel things they would not usually do. These experiments turn mentally stable men into a person willing to inflict harsh punishments on innocent people while following orders. Night by Elie Wiesel‚ The Milgram Shock Experiment‚ and the stanford prison experiment shows how obedience to an authority can cause people to stray from their conscience. In the Stanford Prison experiment the men were deindividualized from the start of the experiment. The men obeyed
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illustrates that he only did what he did‚ followed orders‚ because he was told to and he felt like an agent to Adolf Hitler. Milgram also posed the idea of something called moral strain. This is when you obey an order although it goes against your morals‚ you feel that what you are doing is wrong but you have no choice. An example of this is in the study of obedience carried out by Milgram. The participants objected to shocking learners by saying that they wouldn’t do it and consistently standing up to avoid
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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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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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In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted a series of social psychology experiments to study the conditions under which the people are obedient to authorities and personal conscience. The purpose of his experiment was to determine whether or not people were particularly obedient to the higher authority who instructed them to perform various acts even if they violate their own morals and ethics. It was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology as it has
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