Controversy around Milgram Experiment

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    Milgram’s experiments created great controversy. They showed how vulnerable humans were to the will bending power of authority. This idea especially stuck around the time the experiment took place, the early 1960’s. America was still somewhat fresh off of World War II, and Americans were shocked to see that they were just as capable of being pushed to do things that went against their morals as Germans were under Nazi authorities. Milgram was thorough in his studies by including multiple permutations of the original where he tested subjects responses to different forms of authority. Extending beyond Milgram’s findings to those such as The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Asch Conformity experiment, we learn that the responses to authority expand outside of his original experiment and provides more examples…

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    follow this image created by society for them. In the Milgram Experiment that was conducted in 1963 at Yale University, where psychologist Stanley Milgram set up a test know as the Experiment 5, for…

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    In Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram suggests that freedom is an intrinsic attribute for humans rather than an undertaking. Milgram believed that people are overly obedient because they have a potential from birth for obedience, and this potential meets society’s hierarchical and authority driven world that demands obedience. Milgram wrote that people obey because they have an instinct to do so, and that instinct is expanded by society and leads an individual to obey (Milgram 1974, 125).…

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    The Milgram experiments sound a little messed up when you first hear about them but then you go into all the details and you really start to think about what people would do for money. The experimenters took a person that agreed to be part of the experiment and a person that was in it. They sat them in a room together and they were both told that one of them would be the teacher and the other the learner, but of course the person that was in on the whole thing was the learner and the other…

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    phenomenon of reasonable people sacrificing their self-judgment to obey an immoral demand? There are some experiments and the film…

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    of abuse. Either way, the recognition of PTSD that we see today would likely not have been possible if not for psychology. He also writes about how psychologists were able to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa via exposure to specific TV dramas. Zimbardo may be slightly over generalizing because while the study was successful in Tanzania, it may not be that way somewhere else. McGuigan writes,” ...the more we generalize our findings, the greater are the chances for error” (12). Kline would…

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    but then again you got to do what you got to do in order to get what you need, and he had to do that to help save America. The Lucifer Effect helps under get a better explanation about why good people do bad things, and what may cause them to do something bad. I feel that this book also makes you reflect on yourself and really think about what you do and how you act and why. The main subject this book is the Stanford Prison Experiment, this was an experiment by a Stanford professor who wanted…

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    “Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)” This essay will talk about “imprisonment” and its psychological effects. In 1971, between August 14 and 20, psychology professor, Philip Zimbardo was the leader of a psychological research done at Stanford University. Professor Zimbardo and his professional team chose the main points of experiment, which were how to be a prisoner or a prison guard can change people’s behavior, their interactions, and use of the power or lack of it. The team wanted to find out…

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    blindly. Many experiments and studies have taken place to explain why people follow orders even if it might violate their morals and result in someone getting hurt. One of these experiments is Stanley Milgram’s experiment covered in his article…

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    In recent history, Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study and Milgrams Obedience Study are two of the most influential human subject psychological experiments. Many experimental standards today were put in place because of the surprising and inadvertent results. Both of these studies received strong reactions from the media and critics. Many questioned whether the experiments were taken to far and some even believe the studies were unethical. Many question if whether Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study…

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