Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley…

The controversy of Professor Stanley Milgram’s experiment stems from the questionable ethnics involved and the debatable reasoning behind the entire procedure which results in study after study of Milgram's work. The Milgram Experiment, a project performed by Milgram in 1963, was meant to show how obedient people are when put under extreme pressure. He compared his results to the Holocaust on the hunch that the commanding officers were so blinded by the situation that even the average Joe could…

Diana Baumrind often disagreed with the ethics of the Milgram Experiment; however, Ian Parker took on a different perspective than she. Diana Baumrind, author of, Review of Stanley Milgram 's Experiments on Obedience, claims in his experiments the ethics he possessed were immoral and wrong. Throughout her article she continually disagreed with everything Milgram had "achieved", starting from the first experiments results which appeared as a review in American Psychologist in 1963 (Baumrind 89).…

When the Milgram’s experiment is discussed most people consider the study unethical, but the real question is, is it really unethical? As was stated on simplypsychology, by Mclead “Stanley Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.” To do so, he picked out random people and put them in a situation where an authority controls them. However, he told the participants they are a part of a study examining the effects…

In his article "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram describes what, in his opinion, was an ethical experiment performed at Yale University designed to test how ordinary people respond to authority figures' direct orders, even if the orders violate the test subjects' conscience. In order to prevent psychological damage, Milgram's test subjects were reconciled with their victims after the experiment was terminated; he also claims there was an attempt to reduce tensions that resulted from the…

The Milgram experiment was one that shocked Americans. For the experiment Milgram had volunteers play the part of the teacher and actors play the role of the authority figure and the student. The teacher was ordered to give an electric shock for each wrong answer given by the student. The person in authority was there in order to be sure that the teacher continued the experiment. His results concluded that the majority of everyday Americans would administer a fatal shock to another human, simply…

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…

In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to investigate into how obedient people would be when instructed by an authority figure. He was inspired by the Nuremburg War Criminal trials in Germany after the Holocaust. He wanted to know why so many people followed Hitler’s orders. To gather participants for the study, he placed an ad in a newspaper offering four dollars to be a part of the study. He told the participants that they would randomly be…

Szegedy-Maszak and Milgram In Marianne Szegedy-Maszak's article The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism, explains how psychologically these American soldiers could commit such vial acts. She then explores the possibilities pertaining to the situation and conditions these solders were withstanding. Szegedy-Maszak then delves into psychologist Herbert Kelman's three necessary traits to convict torture: authorization, routinization, and dehumanization (Maszak 76). Stanley Milgram has…

Identifying the Self Lauren Slater firsts introduces us to Stanley Milgram and his experiments in the chapter Obscura. In this chapter we revolve around the topic of self-identity compared to who we really are while under the influence of the power of authority. Slater, although unclear of the true meaning of these experiments, finds they have great power in shedding light on the distinction between who we think we are versus who we truly are (Slater, 39). This then makes myself wonder, am I…