What Was Stanley Milgram's Would People Still Obey?

This research paper is in accordance with a pervious research done by a man named Stanley Milgram in the years 1963,1965 and 1974. Milgram’s study was in regards to obedience and focused on the idea of people’s response to authority figures. He wanted to find out under what conditions people would either agree or refuse the command of an authority figure. In 2009, Jerry Burger, a psychologist coming from the university of Santa Clara proceeded to semi-replicate this study in regards to a person’s obedience to authority. He wanted to know that even after many years ‘Would People Still Obey?” The major difference that needs to identified between what Milgram did and what is being replicated by Jerry Burger is that there are a lot more ethical issues that need to be addressed that were not a factor when Milgram conducted his research. Burger had to take notice and implement changes to the methodology and …show more content…
The main goal of making these changes was in order to stick to the ethical protocol that is put in place in this day and age. We must first know exactly what the process was for Milgram’s study in order to compare and understand the study of Jerry Burger. For the experiment, Milgram recruited forty men using a newspaper ad. Each person was paid for his participation. Milgram developed an intimidating shock generator, with shock levels starting at 30 volts and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts. The shock generator had labels above each level. For the experiment, the participant was paired with another person, and they drew lots to see who would be the “teacher” and who would be the “student.” The lot was