Stanley Milgram conducted the obedience to authority studies. Milgram’s desire came from wanting to investigate how easily people would do great harm to other people simply by being ordered to.
Milgram’s theoretical basis was that “humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in a position of authority over them.” He proposed that people would even obey if the situation calls for a violation of their own morals and ethical behavior.
One way the people in Milgram’s experiments were deceived was that the shock generator he created didn’t produce or shock anyone at all, the participants believed otherwise. Another way is that the Milgram rigged the “random” choice of who became the teacher and the learner. He rigged it so that the “true …show more content…
That is powerful because Yale has a great and positive reputation so it is understable to why a participant would trust an experiment that is sponsored by Yale. Also, Milgram’s proposal that participants may of thought “the learner, after all, also voluntarily came here and he has an obligation to the project too” is powerful. This is also understable because the participants were led to believe that the learners also signed up for the experiment and since they signed up they had to follow through with the experiment.
One of the variables that affected obedience in Milgram’s study were that participants were more likely to obey when they were physically and emotionally distant from the victim. This made the participants more likely to send a “shock” to a learner because they could not directly see the learner. Also, Milgram discovered that physical distance of an authority figure strongly influenced obedience as well. When the experimenter was not in the room, obedience rates dropped
Milgram’s theoretical basis was that “humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in a position of authority over them.” He proposed that people would even obey if the situation calls for a violation of their own morals and ethical behavior.
One way the people in Milgram’s experiments were deceived was that the shock generator he created didn’t produce or shock anyone at all, the participants believed otherwise. Another way is that the Milgram rigged the “random” choice of who became the teacher and the learner. He rigged it so that the “true …show more content…
That is powerful because Yale has a great and positive reputation so it is understable to why a participant would trust an experiment that is sponsored by Yale. Also, Milgram’s proposal that participants may of thought “the learner, after all, also voluntarily came here and he has an obligation to the project too” is powerful. This is also understable because the participants were led to believe that the learners also signed up for the experiment and since they signed up they had to follow through with the experiment.
One of the variables that affected obedience in Milgram’s study were that participants were more likely to obey when they were physically and emotionally distant from the victim. This made the participants more likely to send a “shock” to a learner because they could not directly see the learner. Also, Milgram discovered that physical distance of an authority figure strongly influenced obedience as well. When the experimenter was not in the room, obedience rates dropped