Was the Milgram Experiment Ethical or Valid? In 1961‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment on a group’s obedience to authority. This experiment has encountered intense scrutiny ever since its findings were first published in 1963; many people question the ethics and validity of the experiment. Multitudes of researchers have taken it upon themselves to determine the answers to the questions (McLeod). Based on new guidelines for ethics‚ Stanley Milgram’s experiment
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was passing down orders from higher authority. The frightening thing about the Milgram experiment is that it proves that Hoss’ makeup was not dissimilar from that of any ordinary person and if any ordinary person was put in the situation of Hoss to carry out the extermination of people‚ they would follow through with these orders just like how the 65% of people followed through with the electric shocks of the actor. Milgram also added factors like socialization through family‚ school‚ and military service
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wrong led me to an article about an interesting experiment: The Milgram experiment. This experiment‚ developed and run by Stanley Milgram‚ took place at Yale University in 1961. Milgram’s experiment consisted of having volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations individually brought into a room and sat at a table with an array of levers. Across from this volunteer was another person who knew about the parameters of the experiment‚ who was strapped into a fake electric chair. A
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concerns a psychologist must address when preparing to carry out an experiment are the effects‚ both short and long term‚ of the experiment on the subjects. Some experiments positively affect the subjects and need not be debated‚ but those that have the possibility to create negative short or long-term effects in the subjects must be reviewed thoroughly. There are several general guidelines that have been set to determine whether an experiment is ethical. A small degree of suffering by the subject can be
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are good or bad‚ there is no right or wrong answer to this. We have learned these two meanings through different reinforcements taught to us by our peers around us. People of different places and eras have conducted experiments and surveys trying to prove both sides. Some experiments have made the news and showed us just how mad people can become‚ others are now used to tap into our minds and get our attention. The way we as living individuals interact with one another raises these wonders of the
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The Milgram Study was carried out by Stanley Milgram. Stanley Milgram was working at Yale University as a psychologist. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram selected participants for his experiments by advertising his experiment through the newspaper to participate in his study. He chosen men that ranged from the ages of 25 to 50 and chosen 40 men to participate who were unskilled workers. The objective for his experiment
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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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How evil are we? Imagine being able to tell if someone was evil or good. In “The Milgram Experiment” they prove they can prove whether people are evil or good. In the test they have volunteer teachers come and help the learner learn. If the learner gets the question wrong the teacher is told to give them a painful shock. If the teacher continues‚ even after the learner pleads for them to stop‚ their evil. 77% of the volunteers completed the test. In one of the trials the participant didn’t speak
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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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The Stanford prison experiment was similar to the Milgram experiment because both of the experiments focused on the responses of people when there are underneath authority. Zimbardo was interested in what would happen when you would put good people in an evil place. He also focused on if the situation out of the institution can control your behavior or does your attitude and values will overcome the situation from the negative environment. For Zimbardo negative environment‚ he had created a mock
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