Stanley Milgram is a social psychologist from Yale University that has made an experiment that shocks the person hooked up to the machine. Milgram “told his subjects they were part of the learning and memory experiment.” He said that “we want to find out like punishment bomber situation.” In this experiment there is one person who has to keep on giving the other person powerful shocks. In this experiment there is a teacher and a learner. “The learner is an accomplice who’s been instructed to give lots of wrong answers, but no one was testing his memory.” As they go up the scale, the person giving the shock hears someone screaming out in pain. We see that in the video, the “experimenter pressures you to go on.” Then the experimenter asks “would
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The first article I found was about the video link. It talked about the research at Santa Clara University. Reporters found that, “although people are often astonished by the high rates of obedience in Milgram’s famous studies, research on social influence processes in other settings provides considerable insight into why so many Milgram’s participants continued to press the shock levers all the way to 450 volts.” The Santa Clara University research suggests that there is four “features Milgram built into his experimental procedure contributed to high levels of obedience. The four features are the incremental nature of the task, the novelty of the situation and the kind of normative information made available, the opportunity to deny or diffuse responsibility, and the limited opportunity to ponder decisions” (Science Letter). Some people may be scared to say they want to stop and leave the experiment. The second article talks about how “the experiments also make us aware of how easily unobtrusive situational factors can tap our susceptibilities to obedience, cruelty, or indifference to others’ welfare, thereby empowering us to change ourselves for the better. This provides fresh insight into the psychology and character of the obedient Milgram subjects, and I use this insight to argue that pusillanimity, as Aristotle conceives of it, is part of a complete explanation of the behavior of the obedient Milgram subjects”
The first article I found was about the video link. It talked about the research at Santa Clara University. Reporters found that, “although people are often astonished by the high rates of obedience in Milgram’s famous studies, research on social influence processes in other settings provides considerable insight into why so many Milgram’s participants continued to press the shock levers all the way to 450 volts.” The Santa Clara University research suggests that there is four “features Milgram built into his experimental procedure contributed to high levels of obedience. The four features are the incremental nature of the task, the novelty of the situation and the kind of normative information made available, the opportunity to deny or diffuse responsibility, and the limited opportunity to ponder decisions” (Science Letter). Some people may be scared to say they want to stop and leave the experiment. The second article talks about how “the experiments also make us aware of how easily unobtrusive situational factors can tap our susceptibilities to obedience, cruelty, or indifference to others’ welfare, thereby empowering us to change ourselves for the better. This provides fresh insight into the psychology and character of the obedient Milgram subjects, and I use this insight to argue that pusillanimity, as Aristotle conceives of it, is part of a complete explanation of the behavior of the obedient Milgram subjects”