Holocaust Milgram Experiment

Now in the 21st century we as a people have different perspectives over events that have happen in the past. There are different studies and research qualities that go deeper into the meaning of why certain events have happened in the past. Just so that we can have an understanding of why it happened and what can we do to learn from it and in a sense never to let it happen again. Events such as slavery, the Trail of Tears, and for this specific paper the Holocaust. This is why social psychology and the many studies over experiments are extremely important to educators and psychologists. There have been various studies completed to tie in a reason to why it happened and what made people think that they had to participate in this event, and it all boiled down …show more content…
The participant was given instructions from a person of “authority”; for example, a man in a lab coat, who had the overall appearance of being knowledgeable and knew what they were talking about; and had some type of power over them. The participant could also clearly hear the screams of the other person, but the studied focused on how many times the person could shock the person in the other room and the voltage of the shocked. Another twist to the experiment was that the person administering the study told the participant that they had to continue hurting the other person even if the screams sounded worse. In the end most people completed the entire experiment, and then were told that the scream was fake. The shock was the small portion of people who actually told the administrator that they could not complete the experiment. This was the most important perspective of the experiment, because obedience was