Stanley Milgram

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…

Deception in Psychological Research Psychologists Blass (2009), Milgram (1964), Zimbardo (1998), Elms (1982), Wren (1999), Forward, Canter and Kirsh (1976) yield acceptance, credibility and functionality of deception within psychological research. Baumrind (1964), Miller (1972), Greenberg (1967) and Kelman (1967, 1972) on the other hand hold contrasting views. Deception when duplicating life like scenarios removed from artificial representation, harmfulness, risk taking in order to investigate…

The Milgram study of obedience placed volunteers in a simple, yet difficult situation. The participates believed their involvement was for the scientific research for human memory. The subjects had to inflict an electric shock towards the receiver for any wrong answer in a series of questions. The electric shock would grow in intensity until the high and most dangerous voltage potentially injuring or killing the receiver. However, the experiment was a ruse with actors and fake equipment. In…

Despite what people would like to believe, not much has changed since the Holocaust people obedience to authority 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…

capacity. (Zimbardo 1998) The impact on staff as seen in Milgram experiment where a teacher and a learner are put under electric shock to determine who is more knowledgeable than the other, then the staff experiences some sort of similar behaviors with the inmates. This is due to the situations they are all subjected to. Continuous stay in enclosed environment with certain daily routine subjects ones behavior to a specific behavior. (Milgram…

Doris Lessing’s persuasive piece called Group Minds, touches on the innate group behavior seen in humans. She first goes into depth about how, even more so those involved in Western society, humans as a whole tend to prefer being in a group over being alone. She emphasizes that, ironically, despite the claim to individuality we stick to groups. To emphasize this point, she points out the contradictory ideas, and backs up her statement by explaining studies on the human psyche in groups. Then,…

Stanely Milgram was a social phycologist who conducted an experiment in 1963 about nonviolent people being capable of hurting others due to obeying the authority under pressure despite their feeling of remorse. The way the experiment received progression was by having people play the role of a teacher and a learner.The teacher obeys the authority and the learner had to memorize a certain amount of words.If the learner failed to the duty, he would received a punishment of a dose of high voltage…

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Groupthink Author’s Name Institute Name Groupthink In 1972, social psychologist Irvin L. Janis coined the term groupthink as “a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups.” Janis made a significant effort in explaining why certain groups make certain decisions which in retrospect are obviously wrong. In certain situations, it is hard to visualize why people support certain group decisions even though…

Obedience is a form of social influence in which the person, changing their behavior, follows a set of instructions or tasks given by a figure of authority. There are two particular studies done in respect to obedience — Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures and Stanford prison experiment. Starting with Milgram’s experiment, it was created to study the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal…