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Stanley Milgram |
Social Psychologist from Yale. He is infamous for an experiment he conducted where the patient would have to shock someone in the other room that said they had a heart problem. |
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Stanley Milgram |
The results were astonishing. He instructed the people to keep shocking the person even though they said they were in pain and screaming. The volts increased by 15 watts each time. Other psychologist said this was sick and cruel, but these people were paid in advance so it's not like they couldn't just leave. |
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The results of Stanley Milgram's experiment: |
Basically 2/3rds of people went to the maximum level of shocking. This definitely wasn't what people were expecting. But it showed something: People were willing to do something to others as long as they could put the blame on someone else. Like, they kept asking Milgram, "If I do this, who is going to get in trouble?" When he said me, they'd go back to shocking this person. |
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What made people think they had to keep doing it? |
They were getting paid to do a job. Stanley Milgram said he was the one who would get in trouble. The lab coats and location pressured people to thinking they were under someone who had authority and power. |
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What happened when women did the experiment? |
They went even further than the men did! |
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Can his experiments be replicated today or have times changed people? |
They ran the experiment again four years ago (but only to 150 volts) and the results? Exactly the same! Some guy said, "I was just doing my job." |
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Stanley Milgram on the business man he observed: |
He was mature and poised but after a while he was a twitching hot mess. He put his fist into his head and pleaded to God to stop the experiment. But he kept pressing the button when I told him to. |
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How much were the people paid back then? |
$4 |
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DeZoort's first experment |
He tested 3 different scenarios: 1) Lying about a PCE 2) Inventory count tests 3) Accounts receivable confirmations. He wanted to see what people would do under authority. Not as harsh as Migram's experiment. |
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Results of his experiment: |
Again, social obedience was cited. People were doing so because someone with authority told them to and said they'd take blame. |
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Why were there 3 different scenarios though? |
TO get rid of context bias and see if the results were robust. |
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"Attitudes to authority in the workplace" |
The scale he created before doing the study. |
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Since he's done this study, there has been how many studies on the same thing? |
10+ |
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What two words do you never put together? |
Creative and accounting |
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DZ got an email from one of his former students from a girl regarding expenses; explain it. |
Alright, so there was this girl who was told to capitalize expenses that have already been classified as normal expenses. It wasn't a material amount...at first |
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They were in the middle of a buy out |
Which made fraud that much more evident. It was an incentive. |
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She came in one morning and even more expense reclasses were on her desk. So what did she decide to do? |
She ended up whistleblowing. She wrote a letter to the buyer and the sale never went through. She quit her job and is married now and has kids and passed the CPA :D |
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When in an ethical dilemma ask yourself: |
Is it in compliance with the law?
Is it fair for everyone involved? What would my ethical role model do? Overriding theme? Think about what you do. |
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Don't do something you'd be embarrassed to tell the the 3M's? Who are the 3 M's again? |
Mother Mentor Media |
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Conformity |
Going along with the crowd. More subtle than obedience |
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Asch What experiments did he run? |
Conformity experiments. It was the line test. A guy would be with a random group and then they all started choosing the short line and he started going along with them. |
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Why do people conform to others groups |
we are social creatures and aware of whateveryone around us thinks even if we don’t believe that they are right. |
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Group dynamics are one of the most... |
powerful forces in human psychology |
