Among multiple issues including giving misleading information, the most dominate is the lack of consent Milgram received from his subjects to participate in such a test (102). While I do see that this is immoral, there is no way that Milgram could have completed his experiments effectively if he had done it morally. The first issue is if he explains what is actually going to happen during the experiments, that would obviously hurt the integrity of his results. Also, going back to how the experiments help us, if those who participated knew what was going to happen, it wouldn’t have affected them as severely. It was the shock that the experiment gave that brought their life choices into question.
But Milgram defended that he debriefed the participants after the study and followed up with them after one year to know and make sure that it caused no harm to them. And results found that 83.7 percent of participants stated that they were happy to get involved into the
This Milgram research on respect to authority figures was a series of cultural science experiments conducted by Yale University scientist Stanley Milgram in 1961. They assessed the willingness of survey participants, men from a different variety of jobs with varying degrees of training, to obey the authority figure who taught them to do acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to think that they were helping an unrelated research, in which they had to distribute electrical shocks to the individual. These fake electrical shocks gradually increased to grades that could have been deadly had they been true. McLeod's article about the Milgram experiment exposed the fact that a high percentage of ordinary people will
Slater references Daniel Goldhagen who argues that “‘His obedience theories just don’t apply,”’ and that Milgram’s experiments don’t include any time to consider their actions, unlike the real world (56). Milgram forced his subjects into an unrealistic position. If the subjects had been given time to think about what was happening and choose the best action, I am confident that nearly every subject would have held their hand. Slater even says that the experiment had subjects in hysteria to the point of “…strangled hee-haws and belly-aching bursts,” (44). This just shows how unrealistic of a scenario Milgram had created.
The Milgram Obedience Experiment Logan Pratts Mount Saint Michael Academy Advanced Psychology Ms. Johnson February 26, 2023 Throughout human history, the world has gone through many eras of different leaders. Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Basil II, and Napoleon Bonaparte were all successful because of their tactics and their ability to fully utilize the capabilities of their subordinates. The authority that people of power have allows others to be used as tools, but how far does authority go? Think back to Nazi Germany, many German soldiers knew of the atrocities that Hitler incited, but they all continued to follow orders. The reason why many people continue to follow orders even if they bring harm to others is the fear
The Milgram experiment and the society Speaking of one of the most renowned psychological experiment, which even replications on TV are done, is the Milgram experiment, on obedience to authority figures. It involves the measurement of how much participants will to obey the authority, in order to explain the reason why soldiers obeyed to allow the Holocaust, the homicides of millions of Jews, happened. With the participants’ roles as a teacher to punish a learner by incrementing degrees of electric shocks, though they didn’t know it’s staged, 65% of them did it to the last under the horrendous moans and the commands of the experimenters, which surpassed the expectation of 1.2%. Milgram himself elaborated two theories, encompassing theory of
However, although the ingroup-outgroup differentiation and the role of fear are largely applicable to many perpetrator groups in the Holocaust, there are some aspects of the killings were the account falters. Although the Jews were seen as the chief enemy by the Nazis, there were many outgroups that began to take form. They persecuted Romani people, Slavs, people with disabilities, lesbians and gays as well as political enemies, particularly Communists. For example, under the SS Totenkopfverbdn, they enforced labour as a way of inscribing political identity. The Guards would often reserve the hardest labour for those whose policies were on the far left.
His lack of concern is shown by making his subjects continue on with the procedure even after some subjects display nervous tension which sometimes led to uncontrollable seizures. Milgram responded to the argument by saying that the extreme nervous tension was unexpected by both himself and other professionals. Baumrind argues that the study of obedience shouldn't should not have been conducted in a laboratory because the participants were more likely to obey the experimenter due to the atmosphere of the study and the participant trust in the experimenter. Milgram refuted Baumrind by stating that the setting was well suited to study obedience because it is similar to other situations where obedience is present and
In 1963, Stanley Milgram preformed a study to test the obedience. To understand why the study took place first we must understand what was going on around the world. The world came out of WWII and were trying to make sense of the atrocities that took place under the Nazi regime. Adolf Eichmann, a member of the nazi party, was on trail and when asked what his defense was he stated that He was “just following orders” (Madey). The world was not whiling to accept that as an answer
While arguably one of the defining psychological studies of the 20th Century, the research was not without flaws. Almost immediately the study became a subject for debate amongst psychologists who argued that the research was both ethically flawed and its lack of diversity meant it could not be generalized. Ethically, a significant critique of the experiment is that the participants actually believed they were administering serious harm to a real person, completely unaware that the learner was in fact acting. Although Milgram argued that the illusion was a necessary part of the experiment to study the participants’ reaction, they were exposed to a highly stressful situation. Many were visibly distraught throughout the duration of the test
The Milgram’s experiment film, is a social obedience and human interaction with authority figures and conformity. The experiment involved placing an individual in a situation in which they would be forced to choose either to obey or disobey commands given by an authoritative person that were contrary to their own morals. The prisoners were to remain unnamed and only referred to themselves and others by their ID number. As an additional for shaving their heads, the prisoners were forced to wear a stocking cap. The film was very sad and emotional to watch how these people/ student actors was treated and how could they do a such thing like this.
Another thing, the Milgram obedience study as where they picked a group of people and they paired them by two types “teacher” or “student”. The things they did in this study were worse that the Zimbardo prison study because the student had to be shocked. The student had to learn for example a list of vocabulary words if they did not learn them they would get shocked with electricity. They would do several rounds to see if they learned and they electricity shock would go up to 450 volts (that is like getting hit by lighting). I learned also about the famous Phineas Gage.
Name : Muhammed Irshad Madonna ID : 250509 Subject : Medical Ethics Due Date : 8/01/2018 Paper : 1-The Milgram Experiment The Stanley Milgram Experiment is a famous study about obedience in psychology which has been carried out by a Psychologist at the Yale University named, Stanley Milgram. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. In July 1961 the experiment was started for researching that how long a person can harm another person by obeying an instructor.
A lot of research is considered “ethically questionable” in the world of psychology. In order to get answers scholars have gone to extreme measures to gather information. Many of which are very controversial but where do we draw the line? The main concern is the safety and well being of participants. Stanley Milgram (1963) is infamous for his methods of study, he is known for his obedience experiments.
She found that the person, who was defiant for the experiment, was a soldier who murdered Japs, and didn’t feel ashamed for it. He also kept Milgram’s cover and never told a soul about his experiment, even though it was an atrocious experiment. She also found out, that the person who was obedient in the experiment lived a great, normal life. After being in this type of observation, this subject felt that it helped him with life. He found how easily he was manipulated in such a test, that he began to become stern with himself and learned to deal with such expectations.
