Stanford prison experiment

the Milgram Experiment I was quite shocked by it. Seeing people so willing to do harm on another person without being threatened was very disturbing, and seeing the few that was pleading to stop was heart breaking. When I put myself in their shoes, I would like to think that I would not harm anyone or anything. However, in all fairness to the idea of what I would do I must evaluate the environment and conditions to which I would have been exposed. If I knew that this was an experiment and the…

justified their wrongdoings by admitting they were merely following orders. Milgram recruited his participants through a newspaper ad, containing 40 males, with ages ranging from 20-50. the experiment was rigged so that the volunteers…

mind because if anything goes wrong you believe it’s not your fault but the authority figures. The obedience study shows how people are willing to give a lethal shock to someone just because a professor is asking them to do so. The subjects in this experiment were willing to go against their morals, end someone's life, because they felt that they were not responsible for their actions. We can justify many things on an unconscious level without knowing it because we believe that we are making a…

In the Milgram experiment, shock testing was the objective of the experiment. The controlled variable was an actor pretending that the shocks actually hurt him with shrieks of pain and terror from his vocals. However, it was all a set up to examine what a normal obedient human being reaction is when he or she is responsible for causing someone pain, that he or she did not know. Also, there was a more in-depth reason for the experiment. What govern the experiment to begin with is the desire for…

still persist. ABC News, in 2007, replicated Milgram’s obedience experiment with the help of experts ranging from university professor to psychologist like Philip Zimabardo. With their help they recreated Milgram’s famous experiment in a modern setting, and, again for lack of a better word, shocking results showed that 70% of the subjects reached the maximum shock potential very similar to the results of Milgram’s original experiment (ABC News; Burger). Another real life example of Milgram’s…

Stanley Milgram created a beneficial distinction between two levels of social control and incorporated them into one experiment. The first level was the influence that a higher status held compared to the status of a lower individual and the second level was the impact of authority that the higher status individual had over an “awe-inspired” peer. Milgram created an obedience experiment using a wide variety of participants that ranged from postal workers to high school teachers, an electric…

Milgram Stanley Milgram was born and raised in New York City, earning his PhD at Harvard University. Milgram boasted an admiration for city life and focused much of his studies on social issues. A pioneer on the emerging field of urban psychology, Milgram immersed himself in the research of both his mentors and peers. Upon completing a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with Solomon Asch, Milgram was inspired by Asch’s curiosity of conformity among the public under…

his mouth, accidentally killing him. Although the marines knew the order was unethical, why did they obey it anyways? Stanley Milgram's experiment greatly relates to this behavior. He had an authoritative figure dressed in a lab coat order the subject to read the word pairs and increase the voltage (Milgram 79). Previously informed that they could leave the experiment at any time, the majority of the subjects continued to obey authority (85). If the man giving orders would have been dressed…

Stanley had created an experiment to see how people would act when putting harm on an innocent person. According to Milgram, the point of the experiment was to “see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in which he is ordered to inflict increasing pain…”(170). The experiment took place in a Laboratory in Yale University. It involved two volunteers, the teacher and the learner, besides…

1. Explain and discuss the background events and ideas which led to Milgram’s research. Stanley Milgram (1963) was a American social psychologist who carried out the destructive obedience experiment at Yale University in 1963. He was very interested in how far people would go in a situation where it meant hurting another person under an authority figures orders. If an authority figure affected obedience levels in everyday American men. This idea came about after Adolf Eichmann's trial in…