Stanley Milgram

The articles “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” by Theodore Dalrymple and “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” by Erich Fromm both can be linked to the movie directed by Rob Reiner, A Few Good Men. The article by Dalrymple is about himself sitting on a plane with a woman when she expresses that she doesn’t obey authority. He gives her several examples of how she obeys authority blindly and that obedience is far from abnormal. The article by Erich Fromm tells us that mankind is…

Now, as the book progresses on, Zimbardo launches into his experiment which to me is quite interesting and impressive. In this experiment, Zimbardo is wanting to prove that in certain situations, normal good people can turn into perpetrators of evil who commit such behaviors. He calls this, “The Stanford Prison experiment” in which normal individuals were assigned to prisoners and guards as a test of psychology of imprisonment. After having done this, Zimbardo became witness to an extreme number…

Obedience is when an individual follows orders or ideas that have been placed by someone other than himself. Erich Fromm poses the question, “Why is man so prone to obey and why is it so difficult for him to disobey?” (624). Throughout all of human history we have been taught to follow certain rules and societal norms. We rely on others, whether it be a group of people or one individual; we are not accustomed to being alone and cannot stand to be so for a long period of time. We may think that…

to defend the use of deception in milligram’s study, Berschied (1973) argued that these criticisms are due to the outcome of the Milgram’s study, not the use of deception per se. If the outcome was different in a way that participants did not obey Milgram, no one would challenge his study; therefore these criticisms are referred to the perception of harm due to obedience, not the use of deception (Christensen, 1984). These all indicate the flow of critical and defensive arguments raised after…

Experiment Essay The film Experiment is based off an experiment in the 1960’s to study the reactions of a person doing what they’re told. This experiment is greatly compared to the Nazi’s in Germany because of it’s results it questions if the Nazi’s who killed the Jews because they were told to are innocent. The Nazi’s who just did what they were told still had the choice to stop and say this is wrong and the Nazi’s who influenced what they did are greatly to blame as well. Only 35% of the…

certain conditions that should exist for obedience to happen which includes “The person giving the order was close at hand and perceived to be a legitimate authority figure (Myers, 2017), this evidence is shown in the experiment of Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment where a teacher…

In the summer of 1971, Dr. Zimbardo designed and conducted an experiment that would forever change the way that sociologists and psychologists viewed human nature and how environmental circumstances can change a person’s psyche. While the experiment was designed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after the sixth day due to the rapid increase of abuse against the prisoners by the guards. Though it is now considered extremely unethical by society’s standards today, The Stanford Prison…

Throughout the course of time, there have been countless examples of people disobeying authority in order to help those in need. Instead of conforming to the basic principles set up by those authority figures, they act out and display their true character traits and disobey with the intent to better the common good. They don’t let these people of power dictate their way of life and they don’t allow them to create these false realities of ideal societies. Philip Zimbardo, Janice Gibson, Mika…

The “Stanford Prison Experiment” and The Lord of the Flies by William Golding both show just how cruel human beings can be. They also show how humans can react when put in a difficult situation, how the participants’ behavior changes, and how the outcomes from both are similar. The prisoners from the experiment and the children from The Lord of the Flies did not know what was about to happen them. For instance, the prisoners were chosen at random. Just like any other criminal, the prisoners…

Throughout the movie, The Stanford Prison Experiment, multiple incidents defined the experiment as unethical. I remembered the infamous experiment from high school, but did not remember if the experiment took place before or after the establishment of the institutional review board. Logically, I assumed that this experiment took place before the implementation of the International Review Board. However, I was wrong. I find the committee’s assessment both extremely interesting and troubling that…