Stanley Milgram

to," says Stanley Milgram in his essay, "The Perils of Obedience" (Milgram 78). As he prepared to conduct a more extreme case of analyzing obedience in which test subjects would read off a group of words while the "learner," who was an actor, would have to pair the two correct words together, only to be shocked in an electric chair if they failed, Milgram hypothesized that the test subjects would listen to their conscience and disobey the immoral orders to continue the experiment (Milgram 79).…

Psychologist Stanley Milgram of Yale University is best recognized for his famous studies of obedience within psychology. Milgram formulated an experiment in which he studied the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram went on to examine justifications for acts of genocide for those who were accused at the World War II criminal trials. Those who were accused, based a defense solely off of obedience. They claimed they were just following orders from their…

However, this is discussed as one of the top ten psychology myths in the TedTalk, in which he elaborates on the fallibility of Milgram’s claim. Initially, Milgram attributed his findings to the notion that society gives credibility to authority figures, following their instructions blindly. However, this can’t be deemed credible since the alleged “white coats” were grey in actuality, casting away the illusion…

In this article “The Peril of Obedience” Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments to determine if people would choose to follow authority or obey their morals. In this series of experiments the experimenter Stanley Milgram found a few contributors to test out his theory. Before he started his experiment he had to pick a teacher and a student, who each got a piece of paper to decide which one is going to give the shocks and which one was going to take the shocks. The learner was strapped…

in “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram, Yale psychologist, has triggered many responses to the question of an individual’s willingness to obey and the credibility of the experiment he performed. Ian Parker, a regular writer for the New Yorker and common voice in other political/scientific compositions, has come to the table with his opinion and outside sources to discuss the facts of Milgram’s experiment and its consequences in his essay, “Obedience.” Milgram claims through his…

In the articles “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” and “Review of Stanly Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” authors Theodore Dalrymple and Diana Baumrind describe the aspects of the Stanley Milgram experiment, while they both partake different topics to discuss. Dalrymple, a British physician, claims that there is a difference between blind obedience and blind disobedience, and there should be a healthy balance between the two (Dalrymple 119). However, Baumrind believes that the subjects…

One concept we talked about is class was obedience, people’s tendency to conform to authority, and was demonstrated in a famous experiment done by Stanley Milgram. Very recently I had an experience with this phenomenon. It was here in China, two weekends ago when Lion took us on a Saturday trip to the Leshan Giant Buddha. At the beginning of the trip we met as a group near the main entrance to the mountain. Paul said we would have two hours to do what we wanted then we would meet back at that…

conducted by Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale University in the early 1960s. Being a Jewish himself, he was aware of the mass murder performed by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials (McLeod, 2007). They claimed that they were simply following orders from their leaders. Milgram was therefore interested in investigating whether German soldiers in the Nazi killings in World War II were particularly following orders from Nazi officials. Milgram wanted to…

Humans, in general, do not like to believe there is an underlying inclination to violence in each and every one of us. People will cite morals, religion, education; reasons that would somehow exclude them from a flaw seen time and again throughout the historical record. Those that stray from the human ‘script’ are seen as abnormal, sometimes given labels as sociopaths or psychopaths to separate and classify those that are different. Browning’s Ordinary Men, however, sheds light on a group of men…

Stanley Milgram Experiment- The Stanley Milgram Experiment was supposed to test people's obedience to authority figures. Random test subjects were brought in to a room, and were told to administer an electric shock to another person after the person gave an incorrect answer. Very few people stopped the experiment before reaching a lethal level of electric shock. In fact, over half of all subjects brought into the experiment administered the shocks up to a lethal level. Overall, the experiment…