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    Stanley Milgram believed that humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in position of authority over them even if‚ in obeying‚ they violate their personal codes of moral and ethical behavior.   Milgram believed that in some situations‚ the human tendency to obey is so deeply ingrained and powerful that it cancels out a person’s ability to behave morally‚ ethically‚ or even sympathetically. In 1963 Milgram carried out an experiment. He hypothesized that individuals who would never intentionally

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    I don’t think this experiment should be replicated today. The reason being is that the Generation we have today has a different mindset and that the experiment is unethical in my view. In 1961‚ Milgram was able to make the participants agree with the experiment. These results led to people trying out these trails because the participants knew the shock would be painful but not dangerous. With that being said‚ it shows you the mindset of the people during that time. People were laid back and were

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    Dutcher 1 English 1013 10/18/10 In nineteen sixty-three‚ Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment on obedience to authority figures. It was a series of social psychology experiments which measured the willingness of the study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience and confronted them with emotional distress. The experiment resulted in twenty-six out of forty of the participants administering the final

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    interaction    Milgram’s experiment is to study the effect of obedience to authority. Study was performed to determine what factors influenced people to submit to authority and to what extent people conform an order against their conscience despite knowing it causes distress and harm to another person. McLeod‚ S. (1970).   40 male participants between age of 20 to 50 years old from various occupation ranging from unskilled to professional were recruited for the experiment. They were rewarded $4.50

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    The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram‚ a famous social psychologist‚ and student of Solomon Asch‚ conducted a controversial experiment in 1961‚ investigating obedience to authority (1974). The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them‚ even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. He even once said‚ "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation

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    The Milgram Experiment Outline Topic: The Milgram experiment I) The experiment A) Who was involved with the experiment? B) How they got participants C) What the subjects thought was happening i)Learning Task ii) Memory Study iii) Electric shock for wrong answer iv) “Prods” to continue the shocks D) What actually happened i) It was a test for obedience not memory ii) Vocal response from the victims

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    Stanley Milgram: ’electric shock’ experiments (1963) - also showed the power of the situation in influencing behaviour. 65% of people could be easily induced into giving a stranger an electric shock of 450V (enough to kill someone). 100% of people could be influenced into giving a 275V shock. The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram (1963) Experiment: Focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Investigate: Whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority

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    The Milgram experiment The Milgram experiment came about by a Yale University psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram. The experiment was to test how well the study participants were and the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with what they thought was right. 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. Stanley

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    OCourtney Galfano English 1102 Holdway Obedience Stanely Milgram created an experiment involving Yale students to injure a third party using electric shocks and studied how many students would follow orders and go along with the experiment. The experiment consisted of two people‚ a leaner and a teacher. The teacher would be placed at a table containing many different buttons and switches that were labeled from slight shock to severe shock. Then the learner‚ who was an actor‚ was strapped

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    subjects in experiments. The use of human beings for experiments or research can have lasting negative effects on that individual such as emotional and psychological damage. The Milgram experiment even though it was a hoax had a lasting effects on many of it’s participants in both positive and negative ways and is a example of why humans should not be used as test subjects. The Milgram experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram a assistant professor of psychology at Yale. The experiment wanted to

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