Imagine yourself being shocked as an act of you incorrectly answering a question. In the Milgram Experiment‚ 40 men were recruited using newspaper ads in order to preform a test that would question human obedience. The question posed was: would they comply with an authority figures commands because they were stressed to‚ or would they comply because they thought it was the noble thing to do? The results clearly show that under authority‚ people will comply with what they are told to do even if they
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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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Social influence is defined as individual mental process (conviction‚ perception‚ thought‚ reaction) and behaviour are being changed in a social group 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
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Similarity #1. Participants in both studies had a difficult time ending their participation‚ and most continued all the way until the end. The reasons for this were similar in both studies. Similarity #2. Both Milgram and Zimbardo stated reported the effects of personality differences were very limited. For Zimbardo‚ the only personality characteristic that seemed to have any effect was authoritarianism; and this characteristic was important only for prisoner behavior. Those prisoners who were
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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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going up to 450V in stages of 15 volts. The experiment was measuring how many shocks the participants would be willing to give the learner‚ even though the 450V switch read “lethal” FINDINGS and CONCLUSIONS KEY STUDY PARTICIPANTS and CONFEDERATES Milgram chose 40 males between the age of 20 and 50 with a variety of jobs to be the participants The learner (actor) was a 47 year old acting as Mr Wallace a
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Describe and evaluate two pieces of Psychological Research In 1963 professor Stanley Milgram carried out a ‘Study of Obedience to Authority’ in which he aimed to answer the question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders" (Milgram‚ 1974). To do this. Milgram elaborated on two theories‚ one of which was Solomon Asch’s 1956 ‘conformity experiments’. In 1963 Milgram put out an advertisement asking for men‚ aged between 20 and 50‚to volunteer
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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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The ethical violations found in the original experiment (1962) included participants (teacher) giving other participants (learner) dangerous electrical shocks at a very high voltage increasing all the way up to 450 volts. The experimenter (authority) informed both the teacher and the learner participants that although the volts may be painful‚ they are not dangerous. Even though the “teacher” could hear the “learner” yell and scream as they got shocked each time‚ the “teacher” continued with the
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