Stanley Milgram

In the Milgram experiment, shock testing was the objective of the experiment. The controlled variable was an actor pretending that the shocks actually hurt him with shrieks of pain and terror from his vocals. However, it was all a set up to examine what a normal obedient human being reaction is when he or she is responsible for causing someone pain, that he or she did not know. Also, there was a more in-depth reason for the experiment. What govern the experiment to begin with is the desire for…

expected of them. Stanley Milgram was an inquisitive psychologist who was bold enough to conduct what no other curious mind had- find the source that gave the sense of obligation when it came from a legitimate authority figure- even if it meant causing life threatening harm to others. The issue addressed is whether one can decipher the difference between ethical obedience and unjustifiable demands. This experiment is to benefit readers in ways that no other proven statistic can, for Milgram knew…

Why do common people perform unethical acts? Yale psychologist, Stanley Milgram, researches human behavior and wrote about some of his findings in his article, "The Perils of Obedience." In 1963, Milgram conducted a test using random subjects and actors in a fake electric chair. He gave the subject the power to increase the voltage of the electric chair and "shock" the actor as a form of punishment (Milgram 78). To his surprise, the data showed that nearly all of the subjects administered…

Stanley Milgram conducted many experiments testing the social control, or the strategies that are meant to prevent deviant behavior (Schaefer). One experiment includes random people who were told to be performing a test on the effect of punishment on learning. A subject would receive the punishment of an electric shock while the other would administer the test and give the increasingly painful shock; however, the test was rigged to where the subject would always be administering the test and the…

In 1962, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test the authority of the average American citizen. Milgram gathered a group of forty men to test their obedience to an authoritative figure. Each subject was brought into the experiment under the impression that they were going to be evaluated on how well they were able to learn a series of word combinations. The way they were encouraged to remember these combinations was by using a form of negative extrinsic motivation. Each time a wrong…

Obeying an Authority Figure Isn’t Always the Best Decision Why do individuals follow an authority figures’ instructions if it meant possibly harming another person? This situation was tested in the Milgram experiment to get a better understanding of why the Nazi’s followed orders that resulted in killing thousands of Germans during the Holocaust. In most cases, people would not harm another individual, but it’s an authority figure who is giving the commands so it is hard to say “no”. People obey…

the field sociology, which was still growing into what it has become today. The curiosity of Stanley Milgram led to some questionable decisions in the name of research that provided some very intriguing results regarding authority and obedience. In a world constantly in fear of a third world war and mass atrocities are still being carried out at the hands of dangerous dictators, over fifty years ago Milgram tried to help prevent such a future with a better understanding of his research. His…

The Milgram experiment on obedience to power figures was an arrangement of social brain research experiments directed by Yale University analyst Stanley Milgram. They measured the ability of study members to comply with a power figure who trained them to perform acts clashing with their individual heart. Milgram initially portrayed his examination in 1963 in an article distributed in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later talked about his discoveries in more noteworthy…

Stanley Milgram conducted the obedience to authority studies. Milgram’s desire came from wanting to investigate how easily people would do great harm to other people simply by being ordered to. Milgram’s theoretical basis was that “humans have a tendency to obey other people who are in a position of authority over them.” He proposed that people would even obey if the situation calls for a violation of their own morals and ethical behavior. One way the people in Milgram’s experiments were…

This research paper is in accordance with a pervious research done by a man named Stanley Milgram in the years 1963,1965 and 1974. Milgram’s study was in regards to obedience and focused on the idea of people’s response to authority figures. He wanted to find out under what conditions people would either agree or refuse the command of an authority figure. In 2009, Jerry Burger, a psychologist coming from the university of Santa Clara proceeded to semi-replicate this study in regards to a…