Stanley Milgram

implemented by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s at Yale University (Slater et al., 2006). Milgram’s experiments…

conversation in many departments of study. This experiment is used to not only show students a study of obedience to help better understand how the holocaust occurred, but to also show the gray area of ethical boundaries pushed by Milgram. Because the experiment is…

In the scholarly article, “ Behavioral Study of Obedience” written and conducted by Stanley Miller, an experiment was performed to see if a group of amenable participants, named subjects, were willing to provide electrical shocks to another person, the experiment tested how far down the severity of shocks the subject would administer to the victim. The question is would being in the position of control and having a feeling as if the subject cannot leave, makes shocking another person justifiable…

Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram suggests that freedom is an intrinsic attribute for humans rather than an undertaking. Milgram believed that people are overly obedient because they have a potential from birth for obedience, and this potential meets society’s hierarchical and authority driven world that demands obedience. Milgram wrote that people obey because they have an instinct to do so, and that instinct is expanded by society and leads an individual to obey (Milgram 1974, 125).…

In the book Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram conducts an experiment where he recruited 40 men. They found out about the experiment through an advertisement that was placed in a local newspaper, and it was an experiment that was a study of memory and learning, and he offered to pay each of them $4.50 if they participated for one hour. Each person would draw a card and it would either say “teacher” or “student” on the card. The teacher then reads off a list of word pairs to the student, and…

Social influences can have many different effects on people depending on what situation they are in as found in Stanley Milgram’s Obedience study. In Phillip Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment, he used the power that police and prison guards gain while in control to show that having a figure giving directions will drastically change the way that someone will act in accordance or defiance with the authority figure’s orders and how much people will fall into their roles in their situation. At Abu Ghraib…

knowledge a person must have a variety of life experiences. Marlow came upon many psychological ideas and that can make one's thoughts chaotic. The Heart Of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad, used the Bystander effect, Stockholm Syndrome, and The Milgram Experiment, are all psychological concepts that give the novel a dark and serious tone. The first psychologic idea that comes to mind would be Bystander Effect. Psychology Today states, “The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others…

seem. The second study I am going to discuss is Stanley Milgram's experiment about obedience (1963). Milgram conducted the study after a trial of a German man, Adolf Eichmann, who had been one of the major organizers of the holocaust. Milgram wanted to argue that maybe Eichmann was just following orders and even though he might not have been a bad person, he made bad decisions because of the power the authorities had on him. In the experiment Milgram used 40 men in ages between 20 to 50, and…

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, who was known for his obedience experiment performed in the 1960s at Yale University. Milgram’s idea on purposing his experiment first came from the hideous acts of WWII. Milgram examined how individuals had the tendency to obey higher authority, such as Hitler, and still contain harmful acts on others, just because they were ordered to do so. According to Milgram (1963) he also believed that in some situations, that human propensity to “obey…

Being able to make others comply with an order, request, or law is a very powerful tool to possess. This is otherwise known as the ability to make others obey. Obedience is a form of social influence where an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual, who is usually an authority figure. Obedience involves performing an action under the strict orders of said authority figure. It is possible to further break down obedience into constructive and destructive obedience. A…