Contesting the “nature” of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies Really Show. From the 1960’s to the 1970’s understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classical studies. Two such studies include Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram’s research on obedience to authority. This research has revealed that many times people obey inactively and unthinkably to both roles that authorities offer as well as orders given to them. However‚ recently‚ this belief has
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What lessons in ethics did social scientists learn from Milgram and Stanford? In order to produce valuable research that can provide solid and beneficial results we need to carry out experiments in order to achieve this. However over the years multiple experiments that have been carried out have been ethically wrong and have resulted in the contenders of the experiments left mentally and physically damaged‚ and some even resulting in death‚ like dying the Nazis experiments when patients suffered
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Psychology Homework Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Milgram obedience study. Should the study have taken place? Milgram’s study is a very controversial study as it broke many ethical guidelines and has many methodological issues‚ but it also had many strengths. One strength of the Milgram study on obedience is that the experiment was reliable as it can be replicated and the results are consistent. The fact that the experiment was a Lab experiment makes the study even more reliable
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In Stanley Milgram’s‚ The Perils of Obedience‚ Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment. Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered
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Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust. People need to resist the dangerous web of influence from
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More than four decades have passed since Stanley Milgram conceived his work on obedience and authority. So what have we learned‚ as scientists‚ and as members of society? Stanley Milgram believed that obedience was central to the structure of everyday social life. Living in a society requires some system of authority and obedience‚ otherwise there would be chaos. Obedience under some circumstances is useful and helpful to everyone – e.g. when a motorist hears an ambulance driving behind them with
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into major influence was conducted by Asch (1956) participants in the study believed they were participating in a visual discrimination task. Groups consisted of one participant with the rest as confederates and were given four lines to compare‚ the ’X’ (standard line) was identical to one of either
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Based On The Solomon Asch’ Paradigm Understanding the reasons why we act the way we do Conformity in Psychology- A study based on the Solomon Asch’ Paradigm Understanding the reasons why we act the way we do. by Chinwendu Ukoha Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management 09AC08836 Contents: PG Introduction 4 Chapter 1 Conformity In Psychology 5 Chapter 2 Psychologist View On Conformity 9 Chapter 3 Solomon Asch’ Paradigm/Experiment
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completely subconsciously. A number of studies have been done when looking at conforming to the social norms. Sherif (1935) carried out a study looking at whether a participant would conform to a group’s answer.
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conformity exist on the same plane of social influence but on opposite ends of the plane. Sherif ‚Asch and Zimbardo show us that conformity is the action of following a certain group of people and adapting to their beliefs and lifestyles due social pressure. This social pressure can be real or imagined. Notice that the power of influence lies with no individual‚ it lies within the group as a whole. Whereas Milgram demonstrates obedience is an act or behaviour in response to a direct order of an authority
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