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    conformity and obedience

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    This Essay will discuss the factors influencing the behaviour of Mark‚ in relation to conformity and obedience. Should he comply and obey with his officer’s strict instructions to work alone‚ or will he stop to help a fellow trainee. Mark is a soldier on training in the Brecon Beacons‚ he is under order to work alone and not to stop to help anyone. Mark is working well and is on track with about 5 other soldiers who he already knows. Whilst running through the country‚ Mark hears a colleague (whom

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    Human nature Did anyone ever teach you how to lie?  Did anyone show you how to steal? How did you learn to cheat? These basic questions form the basis of our debate. We believe that human nature is essentially evil based on religious sources‚ through human interaction‚ and our animal instinct. In order to understand our human nature we must first understand evil. Evil is the violation of‚ or intent to violate‚ some moral code. Definitions of evil vary‚ however‚ evil is commonly associated

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    Milgram’s aim was to research how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities‚ for example‚ Germans in WWII. (McLeod 2007) The first ethical dilemma with Milgram’s experiment is deception. The experimenter deceived the participants‚ who were made to believe that they were truly inflicting pain on the learners and were purposely put in a position of high stress

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    Schindler’s List March 6th‚ 2012 Schindler’s List You are put into a death camp because you are of a Jewish religion. Day after day you are talked down to by German soldiers and thought of as a plush toy that can just be thrown around. You try to put out some authority over anyone higher than you and you are instantly dehumanized‚ more than you already are‚ and are probably killed on the spot. You are a lucky one‚ however‚ because you were in the left line‚ not the right‚ so you get to live instead

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    to an innocent middle-aged man? Were the participants sadists (people who enjoy giving others pain)? Did Milgram manage somehow to recruit only “crazy participants”? The answer to these questions is of course “No.” The participants were indeed average people who came from all walks of life. They were young‚ old‚ rich‚ poor‚ educated and uneducated. So what accounts for their obedience? Milgram says the essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out

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    the other hand‚ war is chaotic and anarchic; filled with disease‚ death‚ and suffering. War is bloodshed and loss; while experiments are organized and precise. Psychological experiments can be used to simulate warlike tendencies and behaviors. The Milgram Obedience Experiment‚ tests how people respond to others physical pain when being commanded by a higher ranking authority figure. The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ illustrated how people reacted when put in a position of utmost power. The Blue Eye Brown

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    The Milgram Experiment

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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 article “If Hitler asked you to electrode a stranger‚ would you? Probably” by Philip Meyer discusses the Milgram experiment that took place in the 1960’s at Yale University. The experiment was designed to test obedience to authorities of higher power and how they can transform and individual to do things they could never do‚ without being pushed past their moral limits. I do believe that people today still value conformity and obedience to authority as they did in Milgram’s time. When people

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    Mob Mentality

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    History tends to repeat itself and while the context may differ‚ the causative factors are most likely the same. One repetitive action throughout history is religious persecution‚ two examples include; Nazi Germany and the Salem witch trials. While the groups being persecuted had almost nothing in common the causes of the persecution were very similar: mob mentality. The responsibility is shared and thus responsibility is diluted. Being in a mob alleviates people’s sense of morality because they

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    Psychology

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    undesirable beliefs. B) inoculation effect: is the treatment in which people are first introduced to the reasons why a belief seems to be correct‚ and then exposed to the reasons why the belief is incorrect. * Zimbardo is to ________________ as Milgram is to _________________. A) deindividuation; obedience * The “banality of evil” refers to the idea that: perfectly normal citizens who follow orders blindly are responsible for most wickedness in the world. * C) 62% * Proximity

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