Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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Stanley Milgram is a famous psychologist who focused his studies on authority and peoples reaction and obedience to it. His famous experiment and it’s results were groundbreaking in psychology‚ surprising both psychologists and regular people alike. First I will discuss the reason for Milgrims study of obedience to authority. Then I will explain the experiment‚ its formulation‚ and its results. Finally I will cover the influence of the experiment on psychology and society. Stanley Milgrim was
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Brad Birnbaum October 30‚ 2012 The Milgram Experiment Sociology 115 The Milgram experiment‚ a study based on a person’s obedience to an authority‚ was a series of social psychology experiments. These experiments measured the willingness of people to obey a person with authority. During the study‚ head figures instructed participants to perform acts that would normally conflict with their personal morality. Milgram’s experiments started shortly after the trial of German Nazi
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After watching the Milgram experiment and the abuse that occur in Abu Ghraib prison. It is clear that leadership roles and authority position can both influence people to do thing that are harmful and bad to others. Leadership focuses on gaining people to follow them and is more based on free will. While authority has the power to tell people what to do. In the Milgram experiment many people back up why they continue administering shocks by stating‚ “Because an authority figure was telling them
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Obedience results from pressure to comply with authority. Children are taught to obey from an early age by their care givers‚ in order for them to conform in society. The authoritarian rule continues through their education and working life‚ and is then passed on to the next generation. This essay will focus on the work of the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. It will also look at other studies into obedience that evolved from Milgram’s experiments from the early 1960s. Stanley Milgram is
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Indifference is unnatural; Indifference is a blurred line between light and dark; Indifference is seductive; Indifference is the end of man. Holocaust survivor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ in his speech‚ “The Perils of Indifference‚” argues that indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred. He supports his claim by first illustrating the “failures that have cast a dark shadow over humanity” and talks about dreadful characteristics of indifference and what it does to us; then he talks about how indifference
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all societies‚ there exists social influences that are known as conformity and obedience. These are traits that can be encountered in almost all societies. Both obedience and conformity involve social influence and have the ability to encourage an individual to engage in a certain behaviour. This can be done with or without the recipient of the social influence being aware that he or she is under social influence. Obedience can be seen as pressure being exerted from an individual that carries a sense
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Perils of Indifference Wiesel develops his assertion by providing references to events in which action‚ rather than indifference‚that could have saved countless lives; for example‚ Wiesel mentions both world wars‚ the assassinations of the Kennedys and Dr. Martin Luther King jr.‚ and also of the numerous civil wars. Wiesel’s purpose is to inspire people to act and help the children in this world that are dying every minute from violence‚ hunger‚ and disease. The intended audience for this speech
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to stand against the majority opinion. Several famous studies have looked at different aspects of conformity and how subjects respond to certain situations. The results of the Milgram‚ Asch‚ and Zimbardo studies can teach us to avoid abuses of power in the future. The first study discussed was conducted by Stanley Milgram‚ and it looked at how far a participant would go in hurting another human when told to do so by the researcher in charge. Sometimes subjects gave what was supposed to be a potentially
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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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