Stanley Milgram, born a Jew, wonders how he was fortunate enough to be born and raised in the United States, however, he was still impacted by the Holocaust. He felt very passionate about the Holocaust and feels guilty that he hadn’t died in the concentration camps with his fellow Jews in Europe (Miller, 2015). Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, sought out the reasoning behind why Nazi soldiers blindly obeyed authority, especially after the Nuremberg War Criminal trials in World War II (McLeod, 2007). The Nuremberg War Criminal trials consisted of thirteen trials against the higher ranked “Nazi war criminals.” The Nazi criminals killed innocent Jews, but proceeded to do so anyway during the Holocaust (Nuremberg Trials, 2015). Some of the Nazis knew killing Jews were immoral, but claim they were “just following orders.” The fact that Milgram was a Jew (Miller, 2015) accompanied by the testimonies in the Nuremburg trials (Nuremberg Trials, 2015) were motivations for him to conduct an experiment to test people’s obedience to higher authority (McLeod, 2007).
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Milgram had only taped one of his many trials and recorded According to Kathryn Millard, she dug through the Yale archives and has found an astonishing feat. She states that sixty-five percent of participants actually disobeyed and claims Milgram only used the footage and data he wanted to back up his theory (Millard, 2015). It’s called the “file drawer effect.” It happens to researchers whose results from their experiments do not comply with their original theory. They eliminate the data, making their results biased and inaccurate (Grohol, 2013). To support Millard’s claim, she references to one of Milgram’s subjects. Subject 2514 was told he had no choice but to continue, however, he folded his arms and replied, “Oh, I have plenty of choices” (Millard,
The experiments began in …show more content…
Milgram had only taped one of his many trials and recorded According to Kathryn Millard, she dug through the Yale archives and has found an astonishing feat. She states that sixty-five percent of participants actually disobeyed and claims Milgram only used the footage and data he wanted to back up his theory (Millard, 2015). It’s called the “file drawer effect.” It happens to researchers whose results from their experiments do not comply with their original theory. They eliminate the data, making their results biased and inaccurate (Grohol, 2013). To support Millard’s claim, she references to one of Milgram’s subjects. Subject 2514 was told he had no choice but to continue, however, he folded his arms and replied, “Oh, I have plenty of choices” (Millard,