Stanley Milgram

ethics of milgram Controversy in Ethics of Obedience Research." Controversy in Ethics of Obedience Research. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. <http://cla.calpoly.edu/~cslem/101/Obey/Ethics.html>." Although the test many seem harmful and stressful, after a year none of the subjects were found to be harmed by their experience. where 83% were glad to be part of the experiment, only 1% were not.”Milgram had believed that many of the subjects would disobey the experimenter at 150 volts (1).“ “When milgram…

Shepard Fairey has been subtly demanding obedience for decades. Unconscious stares meet the face of his ubiquitous image of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant in the streets of nearly every major city worldwide. Stickered haphazardly onto street signs, plastered to overpasses and billboards, the graphic, propaganda-esque portrait of Andre stares through dark black eyes, silently commanding “OBEY.” Or is the command to dis-obey? Such are the sardonic messages behind much of street…

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…

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 for every answer that was wrong. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the subjects followed through to the…

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…

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The highly unethical nature of this experiment is quite apparent, in the film and in the actual experiment itself. Starting with deception, it was evident since the start of the study when the participants were made unaware of their random assignment and led to believe that their roles were based on their nature. Demand characteristics were briefly seen when the experimenter told the guards that they expected them to show their authority and discipline the prisoners Furthermore, there is…

Private Santiago. Milgram wrote "The Perils of Obedience ", which describes his experiment where there is a teacher and leaner. The teacher, the actual subject, shocks the learner for every wrong answer. The volts of electricity start at 15 increasing to 450. Kelman and Hamilton wrote "My Lai Massacre" which recounts the trial and thoughts of Lieutenant Calley, the only officer to go on trial for the My Lai Massacre.They also analyze the three points of social processes . Milgram along with…

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…

The film Compliance portrays a true story that draws a eerie connection to the Stanley Milgram’s experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment. It involves seemingly normal people committing horrible acts under social influence. However, the real setting of the story in the film versus the laboratorial conditions of the experiments entail the debate over the extent of their connection. While the results of experiments certainly provide insights into the possible social psychological mechanisms…