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Stanley Milgram, a professor at Yale University was an ordinary man of about middle age. He conducted an experiment to test the obedience of an individual under the authority of an individual. When orders are given from an authority figure does it change the course of action of an individual? History has repetitively shown soldiers and individuals making decisions based upon an authority figure’s instruction rather than what their own self conscience would choose. The Milgram experiment was…

together of the two groups neutralized the hostility by fostering understanding of the other. The logic behind this intervention was that working together builds trust and leads to dissolving some of the dissonance between one group and the other. The Stanford prison experiment helped social scientists to better understand the conditions that promote brutal behaviors by shifting the blame from the individual to the social conditions that individual was in. Zimbardo’s experiment incorporated…

Before his time as a professor at a university, Jeffrey Williams worked as guard at the New York State correctional prison. He spent most of his time working at Downstate Correction Facility in Fishkill, New York. The prison had a “campus” style in which cluster of cells were arranged in horseshoe shape, rather than long rows. This style seemingly permitted for a more pleasing environment with less chaos. Williams writes that most of the prisoners in Downstate Correction Facility are serving for…

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes the reader through a typical day in a Soviet prison camps around 1960. The novel is written through the point of view of Ivan Denisovich (Shukhov), a poor and uneducated man. Throughout the novel the reader is exposed to the harsh treatment and environment that the inmates endured in the prison camps, which included a number-ing system, roll calls and searches, the hierarchy of prisoners, and the prison guard’s actions. These…

aversion” toward the Jews later down in his career as a policemen. Constant death during the war, the destructiveness and the violence that went along with it had roused the men’s sleeper personality to awake, thus making them violence as the war. The Stanford prison experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo also supported the idea of the “sleeper” personality could brought forward under circumstances. In his experiment, he randomly selected people to guards group and prisoners in a prison…

I strongly believe that there were only a few bad apples with dark side hidden down deep as far as the Abu Ghraib prison torture, sexual harassment and killings perpetrated by soldiers in the prison and all what it takes for these bad apples is for the right opportunity to come to show out all their dark sides. Its only small portion of the American army soldiers that was operating and controlling Abu Ghraib prison. Accountability for the abuse of the inmates at Abu Ghraib prison have been…

In "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. What he found that through fear and threats anyone could commit a crime and what he believed that authority plays a huge role in our lives. However, Cave believes that people should be able to learn what is right and wrong from around them. I believe that Milgram’s study helps us better understand rules. First, in 1963 Milgram wanted to know whether…

Milgram Experiment Reflection Paper In May 1967, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram was leading a study linked between obedience and behavior. The experiment involved the experimenter, teacher and the learner. The experimenter would then prompt the teacher to give the learner different levels of shock. The level of shocks ranged from slight shock which was 15v to a shock that transmitted volts as powerful as 450v danger severe shock. The experiment included 40 males the ages ranging…

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…

One of the most famous studies in 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…