The Milgram experiments sound a little messed up when you first hear about them but then you go into all the details and you really start to think about what people would do for money. The experimenters took a person that agreed to be part of the experiment and a person that was in it. They sat them in a room together and they were both told that one of them would be the teacher and the other the learner, but of course the person that was in on the whole thing was the learner and the other person the teacher. The two then proceded into where they would be given the experiment. The teacher sat in the same room as the person orchestrating the whole thing and the learner sat in a room where the teacher could not see them, but only hear them. The
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In this experiment they were given the same setup as in the Milgram experiment, a teacher, learner, and they also set the rooms up the same way, they also had to memorize the same exact list of words. The one major difference were the results, and they were very different. In the Milgram experiment only about fifty percent went all the way, however in the experiment the UK did, nine out of twelve people went all the way, or seventy-five percent, and that is a major difference. The percentage increased twenty-five percent in three years. This helps prove my point that people are either getting more violent, or are more likely to follow what people are telling them to do no matter what the consequences are. If we redo the experiment in say 2020 we would have much different results from not just the Milgram experiment but also from the 2006 experiment and possibly different results from the experiment done in 2009. The results might even be able to reach 100% by then. If you think about it, the results rose twenty-five percent in three years, the results might and most likely will turn into 100% if given enough time and enough experiments, and that is scary to think about. If 100% of people took place in this experiment and they all went all the way, the world would be a horrible place. You would have to live a life knowing everyone around you would be willing to hurt you if they …show more content…
All humans want to try to act nice and innocent, but in reality, we all have a darker side to us. We all have a side that we wished didn’t exist for some reason or another, it isn’t always a horrible side, but a side that we can’t show everyone. This experiment is a way that brought out that side in almost everyone that was part of it. This gave them a reason to let it out, they were being told to shock the learner when he was wrong and if someone tells you something enough times, you start to think that it is all going to be ok and it’s not wrong because they said so. The results will also change because people are getting more and more violent through the years. This ties into if you are bribed with either enough money or something you want, you are more likely to do it than if you weren’t getting anything in
In this experiment they were given the same setup as in the Milgram experiment, a teacher, learner, and they also set the rooms up the same way, they also had to memorize the same exact list of words. The one major difference were the results, and they were very different. In the Milgram experiment only about fifty percent went all the way, however in the experiment the UK did, nine out of twelve people went all the way, or seventy-five percent, and that is a major difference. The percentage increased twenty-five percent in three years. This helps prove my point that people are either getting more violent, or are more likely to follow what people are telling them to do no matter what the consequences are. If we redo the experiment in say 2020 we would have much different results from not just the Milgram experiment but also from the 2006 experiment and possibly different results from the experiment done in 2009. The results might even be able to reach 100% by then. If you think about it, the results rose twenty-five percent in three years, the results might and most likely will turn into 100% if given enough time and enough experiments, and that is scary to think about. If 100% of people took place in this experiment and they all went all the way, the world would be a horrible place. You would have to live a life knowing everyone around you would be willing to hurt you if they …show more content…
All humans want to try to act nice and innocent, but in reality, we all have a darker side to us. We all have a side that we wished didn’t exist for some reason or another, it isn’t always a horrible side, but a side that we can’t show everyone. This experiment is a way that brought out that side in almost everyone that was part of it. This gave them a reason to let it out, they were being told to shock the learner when he was wrong and if someone tells you something enough times, you start to think that it is all going to be ok and it’s not wrong because they said so. The results will also change because people are getting more and more violent through the years. This ties into if you are bribed with either enough money or something you want, you are more likely to do it than if you weren’t getting anything in