Obedience to authority is everywhere. Whether it is a student obeying his teacher‚ citizens following the laws or a child obeying his or her parents there will always be a scenario of obedience to authority. There are of course different levels of obedience ranging from a group of people following their leader‚ such as on a sports team‚ to extreme religious cults. Religions itself have different levels of obedience. Depending on how fanatic an environment you’re in‚ the level of obedience is obviously
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In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which
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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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Words) Experimental methods have played a significant role in broadening and providing an understanding into the function of human behaviour. Many studies using an experimental method‚ have been pivotal in aiding this understanding from Milgram’s Obedience Study to Harlow’s study of attachment. An Experimental method intends to prove a theory (hypothesis) of an experimenter by manipulating different variables to see what outcome these have on the results. The hypotheses are an educated guess as to
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Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just
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Tuan Nguyen Professor Jill Moreno Ikari ENG 101 11 October 2013 Obedience and Civil Disobedience INTRODUCTION 20XX‚ the world has gone through dramatic changes. World War III largely devastated the whole world. The word “sovereign nation” doesn’t exist since most nations were merge into a large‚ totalitarian world government. It is one the darkest age since the dawn of human history. Technological capabilities has reached such an advanced state that human hardly need to serve themselves‚ everything
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Conformity‚ compliance‚ and obedience impact the lives of groups and individuals more often than most realize. These social influences may encompass either destructive‚ constructive‚ or neutral behaviors (Kassin‚ 2015). Why people behave the way they do when in groups is worth exploring. Humans exert social control over others through various forms of manipulation without them realizing they are being influenced. Social influence includes individuals changing their behaviors to adhere to existing
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"The Perils of Obedience" was written by Stanley Milgram in 1974. In the essay he describes his experiments on obedience to authority. I feel as though this is a great psychology essay and will be used in psychology 101 classes for generations to come. The essay describes how people are willing to do almost anything that they are told no matter how immoral the action is or how much pain it may cause. This essay even though it was written in 1974 is still used today because of its historical
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Discuss the ethics of Milgram’s obedience study. In the years 1961-1962‚ Stanley Milgram - Yale University psychologist‚ conducted the first of the obedience experiments‚ which were also called "shock" studies. The research was invented to check if the people would be ready to harm somebody just to meet the requirements of the experiment. This essay will be focused on the ethical side of the study. Firstly‚ it will be presented how the experiment was performed‚ by describing all of the necessary
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Evaluate Milgrams research into obedience. Stanley Milgram (1963) explains why 65% of the people did something they felt was morally wrong‚ that is they went into an agentic state and exhibited some aspects of denial in order to avoid moral strain. However‚ Milgram does not explain why 65% did not obey. In other words‚ it does not explain individual differences as the volunteers in Milgrams experiment seemed to resist the pressure and Milgram does not explain that. To continue‚ the experiment
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