Stanley Milgram carried out one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. He was a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducting an experiment that focused on the conflict between obedience and morality. It showed that people have a strong tendency to obey with authority figures. Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an order even if it involved harming another individual. He was fascinated on how easily ordinary people could be influenced in committing
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Variables Question Independent Variables: SRCBELT SRC BELTCODE - 0 NOT ASSIGNED; 1 = 12 LRGST SMSA’S; 2 = SMSA’S 13-100; 3 = SUBURB‚ 12 LRGST; 4 = SUBURB‚ 13-100; 5 = OTHER URBAN; 6 = OTHER RURAL Recoded as City (1‚ 2)‚ Suburbs (3‚4)‚ Rural (5‚6) Dependent Variables: HAPPMAR MNTLHLTH GUNLAW ABANY TEENSEX “Taking all things together how would you describe your marriage?” FIGURES 1-4. "Now thinking about your mental health‚ which includes stress‚ depression
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7 October 2013 Synthesis Over Obedience In this chapter on the research of obedience‚ studying the psychological actions and reactions‚ the implications brought forth are the surprising effects of simple commands and the subliminal influence. The articles “The Perils of Obedience”‚ by Stanley Milgram‚ and “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ by Solomon E. Asch‚ both exhibit the traits of simple‚ ordinary test subjects following orders and actions by someone who is illustrated to have power or the general
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Kevin Browning Hired Guns What are the limits of the government‚ which the majority cannot override? Does the government have the right to conscript its citizens and send them off to war? This raises the question of consent. Do we own ourselves? Does conscription violate the right of self possession? Mr. Sandel goes into great detail about Locks Government by Consent. The question of conscription or a draft by the military‚ is this action morally or ethically correct? It is discussed
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Baumrind vs. Milgram Milgram conducted an experiment which includes the subject of the experiment is in a laboratory environment and is told to give increasingly severe electric shocks to another person. The subject is getting told to do so by a person in a white lab coat‚ who appears to be a scientist; but is actually an actor. The person in the white lab coat tells the subject to continue to increase the level of shock the other person receives until they reach the level of “Danger Severe Shock
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incurrence until they finally become expenses on the income statement. 6. Is it possible for costs such as salaries or depreciation to end up assets on the balance sheet? Explain. 7. “The variable cost per unit varies with output‚ whereas the fixed cost per unit is constant.” Do you agree? Explain. 8. Only variable costs can be differential costs. Do you agree? Explain. Part 2: Compulsory Section Problem 1 (15 marks) Richmond‚ Inc.‚ operates a chain of 44 department stores. Two years ago‚ the board
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Stanley Milgram is a 20th century social psychologist who conducted research into social influence and persuasion. His experiments on obedience remain some of the most frequently cited and controversial in the history of the field. Brown‚ R. (1986)‚ “Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.” He argues that
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boring‚ the experiment’s result shocked the world. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has indicated the significant power of roles‚ or situations‚ on human behaviors; thus‚ brings about many influences on society. According to Zimbardo in “ Obedience to Authority‚” he asked the students during the spring term to reverse role and lecture him a topic that would interest him. One group of students‚ led by David Jeffe‚ decided to do a lecture on the psychology of imprisonment‚ and they spent the
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The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment‚ two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss‚ though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual‚ called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room‚ administering memory related
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I think the Milgram and Zimbardo’s results is a good theory for the Holocaust. When the two‚ Instructor and Student‚ were in role play for every wrong answer the instructor would shock the student. At times when the instructor would say‚ “I don’t want to do this” or “I can’t do this” shows he does have a consequence‚ but he continued to still push the trigger. Although it was just an actor playing the role and no one was being shocked it is terrible to see how he continued to go on with the test
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