Leland Stanford

Have you ever wondered why people don't listen to authority? Or maybe why there is such an issue with disobedience? We see all over the world that there is a major problem in obeying and disobeying. People obey or disobey authority because they desire to conform to society, they fear authority, and because of moral conviction. We continue to be obedient because we want to fit in with rest of the world, were afraid to be different and stand up for what we really believe. “As long as i am…

Stanley Milgram conducted the obedience to authority studies. Milgram’s desire came from wanting to investigate how easily people would do great harm to other people simply by being ordered to. Milgram’s theoretical basis was that “humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in a position of authority over them.” He proposed that people would even obey if the situation calls for a violation of their own morals and ethical behavior. One way the people in Milgram’s experiments were…

The story of the Jellyfish is a story the Ishmael told the student to illustrate how the appearance of human into the world was just as influential as the occurrence of the jellyfish. He starts off the story explaining how the world began and how jellyfish emerged and the student was confused about how much emphasis that was put on the occurrence of the jellyfish and then Ishmael points out that that is how humans make their own occurance sound. The lesson here was that Ishmael wanted the…

Stanley Milgram is a well-known psychologist whose revered yet controversial experiments on obedience forge a popular name for him. His experiments offer plenty to critique, and many respected psychologists tore his work apart. One author, Diana Baumrind, critiques Milgram in her article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” and explains the unethicality of his work and the assumed rights of the subjects. Ian Parker on the other hand, in his article “Obedience,” states that…

. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the role of attention in the performance of a new motor skill (cup stacking), to determine whether the level of attentional focus on the task impacted performance of the skill. The cup stacking experiment was performed under three different conditions; focused attention, response dual task, and cognitive dual task. Condition one was performed by solely focusing on completion of the task, while condition two, required the participant to respond to…

Brought by the innovative - yet not always succeeded - American director Michael Almereyda, “Experimenter” tells us about the work of social psychologist, Stanley Milgram (an unsmiling Peter Sarsgaard), based on his overwhelming studies on the human obedience to authority. In this biographical drama, whose theme is sufficiently enticing to keep us watching with a responsive curiosity, Almereyda uses his creative freedom to edify a somewhat loose narrative that drinks from the thoughts and…

In the articles, “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” by Theodore Dalrymple and “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” by Erich Fromm, the authors possess differing opinions on the ideology of obedience versus disobedience, but are similar on demonstrating the impact on human relationships, explaining the key role of judgement in actions of conformity, and implementing facts based on scientific experiments. Ultimately, Dalrymple has a more superior argument providing further evidence…

One of the studies that we covered in class during the Social Psychology unit was the Stanford prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo. This study has the broad design of an experiment. It is an experiment because Zimbardo set out to see the effects of prison and social roles. The idea is that he was experimenting with a group of people to see how their social roles would change once put into the controlled environment of the mock prison space. It is more specifically known as a Quasi…

The general topic that the article is addressing: The rule of "guards" and "prisoners" in the context of an experimental simulation of a prison environment, and the research purpose is to help to identify and isolate the various processes which motivate aggressive/submissive behavior within a 'total institution' such as a prison. The author hypothesis might be called the dispositional hypothesis, that the state of the social institution of prison is due to the "nature" of the people…

In human behavior, Obedience is an action which occurs under explicit orders or instructions from a person in authority. Obedience differs from conformity (changing behavior with the purpose of being equivalent to others in a group) and compliance (behavior swayed by another). Two major experiments on obedience is the Milgram and Zimbardo prison experiments. In the Milgram experiment, participants were given clear instructions to administer electric shocks from the experimenter, to a confederate…