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Stanley Milgram Experiment Summary

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Stanley Milgram is an eminent researcher that created the obedience study. This study showed that people have a strong tendency to obey authority figures. Milgram gathers forty male volunteers for his study and informed each volunteer that the study is about the effects of punishment of learning. Milgram delegated each volunteer role as the teacher, and their job was to help the students to learn a list of word pairs. The teachers were to severely shock learners when questions were answered wrong. The shock levels range from 15 to 450, and over time the learners would complain about the shock waves being administered to them. Finally, learners screamed loudly about having heart pain and refuse to answer any questions, and teachers were informed …show more content…

Milgram felt this was normal. However, Milgram was shocked at the fact sixty-five percent agreed to continue to proceed with maximum voltage level. Each reaction from the “teachers” who decided to proceed was downhearted, ashamed, defeated, and distracted. When in many instances when the learners pleaded to be freed the teachers in the experiment continue to engage, and disregard the “learner” desperate plead. Much of that sixty-five percent thought they killed the learner in the experiment when they heard awkward silence. However, each participant continued to listen to the experimenter who told them to continue. Never once then the participant tries to challenge the experimenter, they only continue to further the experiment and administer the shocks. The three main factors: obeyed but justified themselves, obeyed but blamed themselves, and the those who rebelled. The participants blame everything on the experimenter and said it was their fault. The participants further justified their actions and stated that if anything were to occur to the learner then it would be the experimenter fault. Other “teachers” tried to blame the learner, and try to blame it on his stupidity. Some participants self-blamed themselves and were quite harsh on …show more content…

Alder is that confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality. Amazing quote! Truly a quote to oblige by, but most statements are hard to live by. Let’s oppose this question what will you do for a friend? Gravitating away from everyone’s perfect life, and to put into perspective a scenario: someone with no friends, no guardian, struggling to fit in high school and trying to find a person to understand them. Would you be this person’s friend? If you happen to answer yes, that is amazing; however, not many people befriend the

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