We abide by many other rules because they usually come from someone who is in a position higher than we are at. There is a very significant psychological experiment which deals with the issue of obedience. The experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram. The experiment involved two people where one would play the role of a student trying to remember different words that he had heard‚ and the other person that was the subject o this experiment;
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protect themselves before protecting a stranger. Stanley Milgram put a study together to prove that Germans are more likely to be obedient to authority then American are. The study was called “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You? Probably.” Milgram explains the character aspects of why people listen to authority and why they afraid not to. Social structure and the organization of society have a powerful affect on people. Milgrams set out to New Haven to start the study ad later on
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January 28‚ 2014 English 1302 Blind Obedience The way society is depicted throughout Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is extremely unusual yet completely realistic. Humans have the tendency to be cruel towards outsiders and that is highly portrayed within the townspeople and the family that finds the angel. It’s difficult to accept what is different because it is taught that what is different must be wrong. Society listens to their leaders. How does one go about
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(2009). Military Psychology Overview. Retrieved November 24‚ 2009‚ Michels‚ K. (2004). Intelligence Testing in the United States Military. Retrieved October 29‚ 2009‚ Milgram‚ S. (1963). "Behavioral study of obedience". Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (67): 371–378 Milgram‚ S. (1974). Obedience to Authority‚ Harper and Row. Milgram‚ S. (1973). The perils of obedience. Harper’s Magazine‚ 62-77. Staal‚ M. & Stephenson‚ J. (2006). Operational Psychology: An Emerging Subdiscipline. Military
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think what was ethical in the experiment was the teachers obey the authority of the experimenter. Also‚ deception‚ the participants actually believed they were shocking a real person and were unaware the learner was a confederate of Milgram’s. Also Milgram interviews the participants to find out the effect of the experiment afterward‚ and some of them glad to be a part of the experiment and some wished they weren’t
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someone great. This will not be an essay supporting disobedience but will in fact show how the greatest obedience is chosen; not forced upon an individual but the joining of obedience and liberty. In the article “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley Milgram defines obedience as: “Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living‚ and it is only the person dwelling in isolation who is not
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the risks‚ the overall purpose and the entitlement. Stanley Milgram had advertised his experiment on a newspaper to get their attention as to needing male participants. From here‚ being informed that there will be two males as one would be a teacher and one would be a learner – even though there would be confederate. The participant would not necessarily be told everything about the experiment as this was the whole point of Milgram experiment to see how far a male participant would obey instructions
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Would you kill another human being? Sure‚ it may seem impossible‚ but there is the ability to do evil inside all of us. Philip Zimbardo would know. He was a professor of psychology at Stanford University who ran the “Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ in which he recorded the violent and sadistic tendencies of male college students in the role of prison guards. He once said that “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside… There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm
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Fear of Disobeying Leads to Genocide Obedience‚ as well as disobedience‚ has been ingrained in our culture since the beginning of time‚ so it is no surprise that so many people obeyed Hitler and killed millions of Jewish people. In the Christian religion disobedience is viewed as bad and obedience as good. In the story of Adam and Eve‚ they disobeyed God by eating from the tree of knowledge and were exiled from Eden. In the story of Noah‚ he obeyed God and Noah and his family were rewarded and
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Asch‚ Solomon. “Opinions and Social Pressure.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Columbus‚ OH: Pearson‚ 2013. Print. 655-659. According to the article “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ Solomon Asch writes about how the affects of group pressure can alter a person’s decision. During the investigation‚ Asch describes how everyone in the group agrees with the answer that they have chosen except for one in which the author calls him the “dissenter (Asch 656)”. Solomon Asch stated that the
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