Obedience: Does it have its limits? When individuals abandon their own freedom for the benefit of the larger group‚ they are no longer individuals but products of conformity. Obedience to authority can become dangerous when morals and independent thought are stifled to the point that harm is inflicted upon another person. "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram reports on his controversial experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders‚ even if carrying out those orders
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"The Perils of Obedience" was written by Stanley Milgram in 1974. In the essay he describes his experiments on obedience to authority. I feel as though this is a great psychology essay and will be used in psychology 101 classes for generations to come. The essay describes how people are willing to do almost anything that they are told no matter how immoral the action is or how much pain it may cause. This essay even though it was written in 1974 is still used today because of its historical
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist whose research has been justified because of the knowledge psychologists have gained about why people obey. One of his most famous studies was conducted in 1963 on obedience. Obedience is compliance with an order‚ request‚ or law or submission to another’s authority. Milgram wanted to investigate why the German soldiers were very obedient to their authority figures and superiors and if that is an explanation for their mass killings in World War
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Summary In 1965‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment which mainly focused on the severity of the electric shock that a person would be willing to administer to another person based on the directions that were given by an authority figure (Milgram‚ 1965). The researchers who were apart of this study expected anyone who participated would go beyond 150 volts shock point. The “victim” stated they no longer wanted to participate in the experiment. In 1965‚ Milgram reported that this study had
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to exist without obedience. There is a scarcely discernible difference between taking after indiscriminately and unreasonable refusal to comply with those in a significant position of specialist. Submission to expert is a genuine and effective constrain that ought to be comprehended and regarded so as to deal with every circumstance in the most ideal way. Stanley Milgram’s experiment is one of the most important experiments ever administrated. The goal of the Milgram’s experiment was to find the desire
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Obedience results from pressure to comply with authority. Children are taught to obey from an early age by their care givers‚ in order for them to conform in society. The authoritarian rule continues through their education and working life‚ and is then passed on to the next generation. This essay will focus on the work of the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. It will also look at other studies into obedience that evolved from Milgram’s experiments from the early 1960s. Stanley Milgram is
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psychologist Stanley Milgram set out to study why people typically responded in obedience to authority figures. He had been fascinated by the Holocaust‚ and why so many people participated in this tragic historical event. On other occasions‚ he had also observed that it was difficult for individuals to deny an authority figure’s instruction‚ even if that instruction goes against one’s morals. Milgram believed that if he could vary the factors that were normally associated with obedience‚ and relate this
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that causes behavior modification. The three types of social influence are conformity‚ compliance‚ and obedience. Conformity is when one change as a result of the mere presence of other people‚ compliance is when one change because others ask for it‚and obedience is when one change because someone tells them to. 2. What were Milgram and Zimbardo’s findings? In Milgram’s initial obedience experiments he found all of the participants administered shocks to the confederate up to the 300-volts while 26
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Existence of Obedience and Liberty Nadia Boulanger the famous French Composer said‚ “A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.” Through this statement we learn that obedience must be coupled with liberty in order to make something or 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
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Obedience to Authority To what extent can humans’ morality be corrupted by environment‚ or are all humans cruel by nature? If an authority figure told another person to jump off a bridge‚ our response would be to reject his command and tell him to jump‚ but what would happen if an authority told somebody to execute a worthless criminal for his wrongdoings by pushing him off a bridge? According to research conducted by psychologists like Solomon Asch‚ and Philip G. Zimbardo‚ under the right variation
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