Stanley Milgram Experiment Essay

The articles “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” by Theodore Dalrymple and “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” by Erich Fromm both can be linked to the movie A Few Good Men. The article by Dalrymple is about himself sitting on a plane with a woman when she expresses that she doesn’t obey authority. He gives her several examples of how she obeying authority blindly and that obedience is far from abnormal. The article by Erich Fromm tells us that mankind is taught to obey orders and…

of Obedience," Stanley Milgram describes what, in his opinion, was an ethical experiment performed at Yale University designed to test how ordinary people respond to authority figures' direct orders, even if the orders violate the test subjects' conscience. In order to prevent psychological damage, Milgram's test subjects were reconciled with their victims after the experiment was terminated; he also claims there was an attempt to reduce tensions that resulted from the experiment (Baumrind 92).…

Stanley Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley…

The researcher Stanley Milgram, had strong opinions about Germans and their personality after World War II and wanted to carry out this research to prove that neither Americans nor anyone else is capable of doing harm to others if they were asked by an authority figure. His experiment involved a learner and a teacher, the teacher would ask questions and if the learner gets them wrong, he gets an electric shock. He tried out his experiment on Yale students and to his surprise, almost all of them…

In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to investigate into how obedient people would be when instructed by an authority figure. He was inspired by the Nuremburg War Criminal trials in Germany after the Holocaust. He wanted to know why so many people followed Hitler’s orders. To gather participants for the study, he placed an ad in a newspaper offering four dollars to be a part of the study. He told the participants that they would randomly be…

psychology was done by Stanley Milgram (theatlantic.com). In 1961, Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, created an experiment to study obedience (simplypsychology.org). The experiment showed “that most people will hurt their fellows rather than disobey authority,” as said in Milgram’s words (harpercollins.com). The same experiment was performed again for television in 2007 that yielded close results. Could people really be capable of hurting others if told? The Milgram Experiment began…

to," says Stanley Milgram in his essay, "The Perils of Obedience" (Milgram 78). As he prepared to conduct a more extreme case of analyzing obedience in which test subjects would read off a group of words while the "learner," who was an actor, would have to pair the two correct words together, only to be shocked in an electric chair if they failed, Milgram hypothesized that the test subjects would listen to their conscience and disobey the immoral orders to continue the experiment (Milgram 79).…

In 1962, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test the authority of the average American citizen. Milgram gathered a group of forty men to test their obedience to an authoritative figure. Each subject was brought into the experiment under the impression that they were going to be evaluated on how well they were able to learn a series of word combinations. The way they were encouraged to remember these combinations was by using a form of negative extrinsic motivation. Each time a wrong…

Obeying an Authority Figure Isn’t Always the Best Decision Why do individuals follow an authority figures’ instructions if it meant possibly harming another person? This situation was tested in the Milgram experiment to get a better understanding of why the Nazi’s followed orders that resulted in killing thousands of Germans during the Holocaust. In most cases, people would not harm another individual, but it’s an authority figure who is giving the commands so it is hard to say “no”. People obey…

The Milgram experiment was one that shocked Americans. For the experiment Milgram had volunteers play the part of the teacher and actors play the role of the authority figure and the student. The teacher was ordered to give an electric shock for each wrong answer given by the student. The person in authority was there in order to be sure that the teacher continued the experiment. His results concluded that the majority of everyday Americans would administer a fatal shock to another human, simply…