Stanford prison experiment

In the twenty-first century, obedience has forced its way into everyday lives in the most unexpected places. Obedience is found in the lives of young children, adolescents, and the elderly. Everyday lives are guided so much by obedience, most don’t even notice its presence, even in the simplest activities completed daily. In the film, The Crucible, obedience is found throughout the actions of the townspeople. The results of obedience in the film lead to the deaths of multiple important…

Stanley Milgram, a famous psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to see how far people would go when being directed by an authoritative figure. This experiment focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram's reasoning behind this experiment was to examine the justifications for acts of genocide and answer his question, "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders?" (Milgram, 1974).…

dispute has been whether it is wrong to obey authority. On one side of the argument, some claim that obeying authority is wrong. From this perspective, many people see Milgram’s shock experiment and Zimbardo’s prison experiment as examples of how dangerous obeying authority is. As Milgram states the subjects in the experiment were “proud of doing a good job, obeying the experimenter under difficult circumstances” (509). Basically, Milgram realized that the subjects got satisfaction from doing…

The Milgram’s Obedience study was an experiment one would find to be very interesting in regards to the human mind of authority. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist whose motives was to explore American’s culture in comparison to German’s culture in obedience to commands of harming another individual. After reading about the study and watching the short film I became very sickened by the experiment. The entire thought process of the Germans to harm an individual to the point of possibly…

Stanley Milgram, contains an experiment that demonstrates how far people will go and continue to obey authority. Milgram conducts tests using random subjects, actors, and a fake electric chair; he gives the subjects the power to increase voltage and potentially "harm" the actors (78). Milgram, surprisingly, finds out from his data that the majority of the subjects administered dangerously high voltage (85). He received a large amount of negative feedback saying his experiments were unethical and…

Inside, there is a substantial focus on the state of incarnation, along with narrative accounts that detail the effects of prison. There is a common theme in both of the books that identifies the harmful nature of the prison system, and expounds how a prison can negatively affect the psychological well-being of a prisoner. As detailed by the authors, Zimbardo and Santos, the prison system damages the mental and emotional well-being of the prisoners, discourages prisoners from growth, and fails…

But, what is a “good society”, and what does it need? “The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley…

lasting impact in the field of psychology. So, he devised an experiment to understand why Nazi’s in the Holocaust followed Hitler. It is an understandable ambition because we must understand why Nazis followed and performed such horrific acts to be able to insure that it never happens again. Milgram’s experiment took place on February 1st, 1965 in an experiment titled Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority. His experiment is justified because of its fundamental steps in…

The movie ‘Dead Poets Society’ demonstrates a great deal of examples on social influence such as conformity within a group and obedience to authority. Milgram’s experiment can be followed throughout the movie. The school traditions dictate a high level of obedience with its rules such as dress code, repetitions after the teacher, and other events which take place on a daily basis. These types of obedience and conformity can lessen the courage to speak up for what one believes in and can prevent…

Because the experiment takes place in a laboratory, Baumrind argues that participants will not act how they might in the real world. She states that the laboratory is an unaccustomed setting for a typical being and may cause anxiety and passivity (225). Correspondingly, Saul Mcleod, a psychologist who summarizes and critiques Milgram’s experiment, states that the “important” location of the experiment, obedience levels increased (Simply Psychology). The point about setting is one in which…