Stanley Milgram

genocide prompted Stanley Milgram, a psychologist from Yale University, to perform a study known as The Milgram Experiment in 1963. The Milgram Experiment has been deemed one of the most famous studies in psychology and is still referred to this day to answer other questions that arise involving a number of problems. Hitler’s demands of German police and soldiers to kill innocent Jews spurred Milgram to see how far people would go to hurt someone else when given an order. Thus, the Milgram…

Influenced by Solomon Asch and Gordon Allport, Milgram conducted many experiments on obedience to authority, most notably his learner teacher experiment conducted at Yale University. The aim of this study was to answer the following question: Was it that Eichmann and his accomplices in the Holocaust had a mutual intent, in at least with regard to the goals of the Holocaust? Milgram believed that everyone is capable of doing bad things if they are led to believe that…

avoid any type of negative confrontations with authority figures. In Diana Baumrind’s article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience”, and Ian Parker’s article over “Obedience”, the authors come to an agreement over the comparison between the two variables in Milgram’s experiment appearing to be imperfectly designed to create an effect that potentially altered the results that Milgram had recorded. Parker and Baumrind each unearth evidence supporting a key factor in which a…

another being under the instructions of an authority figure. An ecological application of the Nazis behaviour during WWII. Stanley Milgram an American social psychologist devised an experiment which operationalized obedience. The original intention to test the German population and correlate the results to the holocaust was abandoned due to fundamental ethical issues. However, Milgram then conducted the initial experiment in America, using paid volunteers, whom were all male, but ranged in age…

in this experiment an administrator would tell the test subjects to shock the victim, who was obviously, an actor/someone in on the experiment. In this article the author, Stanley Milgram elaborates and describes the experiment. Like any other article out there, there are weakness along with strengths. The author, Milgram, gave some background information on obedience and explain obedience can make people do positive things, however, can also make people do evil and inhumane things. For example…

Jerry M. Burger is a Psychology professor for Santa Clara University. Burger replicated Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies from the 1960’s and 1970s. In Milgram’s study, Milgram wanted to test “the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience” (Saul McLeod, 2007). He conducted this experiment by having an authority figure, a “learner”, and 40 participants who went through the experiment at different times. The participant was supposed to ask the learner a series of questions…

Dynamic Stanley Milgram’s (1963) primary objective within his study was to analyze the concept of obedience to authority figures. Milgram’s (1963) interest in the subject of obedience began as he questioned how individuals could commit acts of extreme violence against others simply because they were ordered. Milgram’s (1963) theoretical proposition was that humans would follow or obey an order from powerful authority figures, even if it went against all their moral and ethical beliefs. Milgram…

Milgram’s Experiment How far are people being able to go under pressure orders of an authority? Stanley Milgram had an interest in understanding why Germans had committed war crimes during World War 2. He planned his experiment in the early 1960’s where he had a confederate and the participant, influence of punishment on memory and experimenter orders teacher to obey. Milgram goals was to determine whether the reason many of the accused German gave to clarify their action where they believed…

choose to mimic behaviour that is considered acceptable by society because they are afraid of being singled out and labelled an outsider. Others demonstrate a more deviant nature, yearning to be unique. Social scientists such as Philip Zimbardo, Stanley Milgram, and Solomon Asch examine an individual’s willingness to conform to individuals in power and or in groups. The film Cool Hand Luke follows a man who refuses to conform to accepted norms within a prison, as well as the prisoners who…

Psychologist Stanley Milgram performed his obedience experiment, which would later be repeated, at Yale University in the 1960’s. Milgram’s experiment was based on examining the control that those in authority had over people’s actions, and how far that authority can push a person. Most people listen and obey those put in authority over them. Obedience is defined as “a change in behavior in response to the commands of others”. Although obedience is less common than conformity and compliance in…