Stanley Milgram's Experiment Of Obedience

Stanley Milgram, was a famous social psychologist, he was also a student of Solomon Asch, and conducted a controversial experiment that was done in 1961, Milgrams classic obedience study, the investigation to the obedience to authority. Milgram’s experiment of obedience was done in 1961 soon after World War 2 had ended this was when the trials for war crimes against the Nazi’s were being done at the time. Milgram put a question on the experiment that what if the Germans during WWII were simply obeying to authority that was given when carrying out the Holocaust or were they all acting on their own?. The experiment was on Obedience to authority. The experiment was conducted on the behalf of Adolph Eichman, a man who was convicted of war crimes during the war, but he was following the orders of his authority. Adolf Eichmann signed out the death sentences of other people but he did not actually do the killings himself. The main reason for the experiment was to find out if people would obey higher authority even though the task at hand would be morally wrong.
During the experiment there was an experimenter who answered the questions of the teacher and recorded his results. There was also a learner, a paid actor who was not actually harmed during the experiment, that was supposed to be shocked each time he …show more content…
Milgram’s experiment showed how an individual’s behavior can change because of authority. In the end, the participants did not stop, even though they felt concerned over the person being shocked, who they believed was in pain over the shocks they were giving him. Many of the participants agreed to do whatever the experimenter asked them to do without questioning the instructions. This is said could have been because of the fact that the experiment was conducted at Yale