Stanley Milgram was a psychologist professor and in June 1961 he wanted to test people’s obedience to authority. John Darley and Bibb Latane were psychologists who wanted to know why people ignore others cries for help. Both these experiments tie into “Lord of the Flies” by William Goulding in my opinion. And both of the experiments are alike and different in many ways. Milgram wanted to test how well we react to leaders, even if they tell us to do bad things that will hurt others. And Darley and Latane wanted to test the reasoning on why if one person ignores an emergency why did everyone else seem to ignore it as well. It is in human nature for us to want to have a leader, for example the president. Without leaders we wouldn’t have any
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In the bystander experiment it shows how people follow one person and react how they reach and in the Milgram experiment they also follow a leader. In Lord of the Flies Ralph is a leader and all of the other boys show him much obedience by following his orders, for example when he tells Jack to go and catch a pig he listens. When Jack turns everyone against Ralph it is also an example of Milgram’s experiment. Because he shows leadership and since all the boys move to his side they are showing him obedience and Ralph disobedience. I believe this all ties into the Bystander experiment because they are following a certain leader and doing what they are doing. Although, in “Opening Skinners Box” Slater states, “In some ways similar to Milgram experiment on the surface, Darley and Latanes work has deeper significance differences. Milgram was looking at obedience to single authority. Darley and Latane were looking at the opposite: what happens when, in a group crisis, there is no authority to take charge.” This connects to the boys because when they are in crisis no one shows authority or leadership. I believe they connect to both these experiments as they both relate to the boys and their authorities. When the boys ignored one cry for help everyone on the island seemed to ignore
In the bystander experiment it shows how people follow one person and react how they reach and in the Milgram experiment they also follow a leader. In Lord of the Flies Ralph is a leader and all of the other boys show him much obedience by following his orders, for example when he tells Jack to go and catch a pig he listens. When Jack turns everyone against Ralph it is also an example of Milgram’s experiment. Because he shows leadership and since all the boys move to his side they are showing him obedience and Ralph disobedience. I believe this all ties into the Bystander experiment because they are following a certain leader and doing what they are doing. Although, in “Opening Skinners Box” Slater states, “In some ways similar to Milgram experiment on the surface, Darley and Latanes work has deeper significance differences. Milgram was looking at obedience to single authority. Darley and Latane were looking at the opposite: what happens when, in a group crisis, there is no authority to take charge.” This connects to the boys because when they are in crisis no one shows authority or leadership. I believe they connect to both these experiments as they both relate to the boys and their authorities. When the boys ignored one cry for help everyone on the island seemed to ignore