Stanford prison experiment

Milgram’s experiment involved one person actually being tested, giving them the role of the teacher, and another person is given the role as the “student.” According to what the researchers told the teacher, the student was another volunteer, but actually was one of…

Adolf Eichmann surprisingly claimed in his defence that he had simply obeyed orders (Baron & Branscombe, 2013). Influenced by the events of the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of famous yet controversial laboratory experiments investigating destructive obedience (Milgram, 1963, 1965). Aim:…

Following the horrific events of the German Holocaust, psychologists and psychiatrists have been attempting to answer questions on obedience. At the heart of the debate is why some humans naturally are obedient to authority, and why others have a tendency to be disobedient. Among the many people researching this topic are Erich Fromm and Theodore Dalrymple. Fromm’s work suggests that Freudian ideology shapes tendencies of obedience. Dalrymple claims that experiences in childhood outline impulses…

Question of Obedience Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, conducted an experiment that showed the effects of obedience. In his experiment, test subjects were given two choices: obey immoral demands from an authority figure or follow one’s own conscience. In his results, Milgram did not find any resistance to the immoral demands despite those demands hurting other individuals. From this experiment, the issue of obedience became controversial and created many questions in America…

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 Milgram used a machine(…

psychologists, Solomon E. Asch, Stanley Milgram, and an author by the name of Doris Lessing were intrigued by the concept of obedience. Stanley Milgram was curious about the reason humans blindly follow an authority figure. This led Milgram to conduct an experiment regarding this topic. Solomon E. Asch was curious about the social pressure groups placed on an individual and their own beliefs and opinions. Doris Lessing focused her interest on the Western culture’s obedience.…

Between Milgram and Zimbardo, their main objective for their experiments was to research on human behavior. In both instances, they had predicted their results but were shocked to find out that the results were total opposite of what they thought would happen. However, both experiments had many similarities and differences on how their experiment had affected their subjects. Even though these research experiments were conducted years ago, it does matter to society today by how people obey…

controversial Milgram Experiment confirms this idea. Researchers in this study discovered that participants did not go against the orders of a Head-Scientist ordering them to continue with an experiment (an actor convinced the participants that continuing would endanger his life) if the Head Scientist stood close to the…

Obedience To Authority Obedience basically means compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority. Following the orders of authority blindly can have many negative effects. My Lai Massacre, Jonestown Massacre, Millgram Experiment and Nanking Massacre are some incidents that have caused negative consequences as a result of obedience to authority. My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie company, arrived in the hamlet…

situation which causes them to change their beliefs. For example, in the Milgram experiment, individuals were tested to see how far obedience will take them into hurting other individuals.The objective of the…