1101-13 23 Febuary 2014 The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram In “The Perils of Obedience‚” Stanley Milgram develops a experiment that puts to test the the question ‚ “Will humans inflict extreme pain to others under the command of higher authority?”. The essay starts off with Milgram explaining the history of obedience by exhibiting the loyalness that was portrayed by followers in historical documents. The experiment that Milgram set up was simple. He elected an “experimenter” who is the
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Imagine yourself being shocked as an act of you incorrectly answering a question. In the Milgram Experiment‚ 40 men were recruited using newspaper ads in order to preform a test that would question human obedience. The question posed was: would they comply with an authority figures commands because they were stressed to‚ or would they comply because they thought it was the noble thing to do? The results clearly show that under authority‚ people will comply with what they are told to do even if they
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After learning about the Stanley Milgram experiment‚ I found myself questioning why and how the majority of the subjects that participated in the experiment were willing to inflict apparent pain and injury on an innocent person‚ and found myself curious as to how I would react should I but put in the same situation. I believe that the most significant reason for this disturbing absence of critical thinking and moral responsibility is because the subjects involved in the experiment were blinded by
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“Behavioral Study of Obedience” Stanley Milgram Shashi Bhatt “Behavioral Study of Obedience” Stanley Milgram The Milgram’s experiment on Obedience to authority figure was a series of experiment in social psychology conducted by Stanley Milgram. The experiment measured the willingness of study participants to obey authority figure‚ which instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. It has been understood before this experiment that people tend to obey
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Solomon E. Asch was a pioneer of social psychology; Solomon was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on September 14‚ 1907‚ came to the United States in 1920 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1932. Asch had explored studies in psychology dealing with gestalt‚ relation-orientated approaches to perceptions‚ association‚ learning‚ thinking‚ and metaphor. Solomon Asch’s most famous experiments had been the conformity experiment (About Solomon Asch). Conformity – the change in a person’s behavior to
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Evaluating Essay The two articles “Student Grades and Average Ratings of Instructional Quality: The Need for Adjustment” and “What if Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority” that we had to read and annotate I found very interesting. The game they played and the statistics they showed in the two articles were so true. You see these things happening all the time through school‚ at home‚ and even at a work place. At school it tends to be some ridiculous
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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 of the deception employed and its potential harm to the subjects. To Milgram‚ this criticism demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals and implications of the obedience
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The reason so many people obey instructions when they feel compelled remains challenging and difficult to understand in social psychology. However‚ social psychologist Stanley Milgram investigated the impact of authority figure on obedience in an experiment perhaps known as the best-known study in social psychology (Fiske‚ 2008). Also‚ the motivation for Stanley to conduct this experiment is to understand why individuals will engage in horrific acts that put others in imminent danger that can lead
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Phillip Zimbardo. A Pirandellian Prison. New York Times Magazine‚ 4/8/73 The quiet of a summer morning in Palo Alto‚ California was shattered by a screeching squad car siren as police swept through the city picking up college students in a surprise mass arrest. Each suspect was charged with a felony‚ warned of his constitutional rights‚ spread-eagled against the car‚ searched‚ handcuffed and carted off in the back seat of the squad car to the police station for booking. After fingerprinting
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Stanley Milgram was a person who contributed greatly to the world of psychology by conducting an experiment‚ which was focused on the issue between obedience an authority figure‚ and the human mind’s personal conscience. Stanley Milgram was an American psychologist. He first began conducting these experiments in the 1960’s. He attended Yale University for his professorship. He would eventually earn his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Soon after‚ he taught at Yale and Harvard
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