Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram’s original motive for executing this ethics breaking experiment was to learn why the German people allowed the murder of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust. Stanley Milgram wanted to learn as to how people can listen to authority and break their personal morals to follow someone that they believe to be control. During the Holocaust, Nazis led a massacre of millions of Jewish people without letting personal values, such as compassion, stop them from committing this crime. In a general perspective, Milgram wanted to understand the effect of authority and how far people would go to obey authority under extremely conflicting circumstances.
If I were placed in this experiment under the teacher position,
If I were placed in this experiment under the teacher position,