Stanley Hauerwas

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…

Although, Blanche Dubois was a southern belle born with a silver spoon in her mouth she had a hard life. Underneath her haughty disposition was a fragile human being, who became greatly affected by the tragedies she faced day to day. Her life was filled with tragedy and fear that altered her psyche completely. Blanche Dubois became insane. Blanche’s self-awareness meant that she was able cover up her mental illness. In spite of that, the music in the play exposed it, by being a reflection of…

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…

displays her reliance on Stanley. In the opening Stella catches the meat Stanley caught for her, introducing Stanley as the dominant provider. Ruby Cohn says “Stanley has trained his wife to catch his meat”. Stella catches Stanley’s meat in every way and sense, as well as in the language “catch”, “what”, “meat” exchange. What’s more, Stanley does not only provide Stella with meat, he also satisfies her sexual needs. This is one of the main sources of dependence on Stanley. Stella is totally…

The Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to…

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…

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…

facet of her mental breakdown. After taking a bath in scene two Blanche says, “...Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand new human being!” She is trying to scrub the past away so that she can start fresh (Language). After Stanley rapes Blanche and Stella does not believe Blanche, she has lost all of her sanity (Neary). Now Blanche hears the Polka music, echos of people’s voices in the room, and sees shadows appear on the wall. With all the mood swings throughout the…

character, Stanley Kowalski early in the play. During an alcohol fuelled poker night with his fellow male companions, things take a turn as Stanley loses his temper and attacks his wife: “Stanley: (with heaven-splitting violence) STELLL-AHHHHH!” Upon the violent assault, Stella…

Milgram’s obedience study has been around for decades and still holds up its reputation as one of the better known studies. Almost everyone who has taken an introductory class to psychology has experienced the method that Milgram used to test obedience in his human participants. Milgram (1963) used forty male participants who were between the ages of twenty and fifty in the New Haven vicinity. These participants had responded to a newspaper advertisement and direct mail solicitation for what…