Outline and evaluate research into obedience (Milgram) Milgram carried out a series of studies to try to shed some light on the aspect of human behaviour. He studied a thousand participants who were representative of the general population. He discovered that under certain situational influences most of us would conform to what is needed to be done. His study of obedience was done in a lab in Yale University and the experimenter wore a long grey coat which reinforced his authority and status. Then
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automobiles‚ fast food restaurants‚ and the thoughts and ideas Americans believed were to be a true American. One in fact‚ was the beginning of a despairing mindset Americans based their beliefs about women‚ and who the ideal woman should be. Lynn Peril analyzes in her novel‚ “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy
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be heartless in so many ways. Elie Weisel describes indifference as‚ “A strange unnatural state in which lines blur between light and darkness‚ dusk and dawn‚ crime and punishment‚ cruelty and compassion‚ good and evil”(290-291) in his essay “The Perils of Indifference.” Weisel shares the same views as I do when dealing with indifference. It can be very dangerous since there is no good or evil only apathy. People that argue indifference can cause no harm clearly do not realize how many situations
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In Elie Wiesel’s speech titled “The Perils of indifference” he discusses the idea that individuals are slowly becoming desensitized to the ongoing crisis’ that fill the world around them‚ slowly causing indifference to overtake all other emotions toward these events. The act of indifference is one that causes society to regress and can be most detrimental because of the lack of emotion that it brings upon those who turn to it‚ creating inaction and no emotion where it is warranted. Through the point
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In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which
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Stanley Milgram experimented with the theory that people will likely submit and follow an authority figure. He determined this from a famous experiment he conducted named the Milgram Obedience Experiment. In this test‚ he gathered random people and assigned them as the “teacher”‚ and placed them in a room with the controls for a shock machine (with various settings‚ from slight shock to XXX). Then he placed a confederate in a room‚ attached to a shock machine‚ who was the “student”. The “teacher”
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gullibility to fall in the trap of emptiness of empty words of Windrip and their lack of vision conservatism are prominent factors for the rise of Windrip destructive and ruthless regime. People are terrified to observe his terror. At this hour of peril Doremus realizes his responsibility as a journalist to make people aware and invoke them to stand against this vicious regime. When his editorial evincing the dictatorship of the Windrip appears in a himself surrounded by public agitation He and his
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11/21/2014 Obedience and the Authority If a person in a position of authority ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person‚ would you follow orders? Most people‚ I think‚ would answer this question with an absolute No. However‚ Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of the obedience experiments during the 1960s demonstrated surprising results. These experiments offer a powerful and disturbing look into the power of authority and obedience. Milgram
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right thing to do. Obedience is key for these type of issues. Just like when parents tell their children to do chores‚ they are gonna take that command and do what they are told. Why do we do that? That’s what we are trying to find out with the Milgram Experiment. Some people just aren’t leaders. Some just like to be told what to do so they have next to no responsibility. They don’t like to worry about what happens if something goes wrong. “Germans were particularly obedience to authority figures
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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