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Milgram Experiment
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Milgram Experiment
A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience
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In Milgram's experiments and in the present one, participants appear to have been primed to withdraw during the early trials in which aversive stimuli were presented (relatively mild expressions of pain and repeated exposures to the time-out, respectively) and before an appropriate occasion for withdrawal emerged (shock level 10, where the learner demanded to stop, and the first few choice trials in Part 2, showing that the time-out schedule would be the same as in Part 1).
Reviving the Milgram obedience paradigm in the era of informed consent by Navarick, Douglas J. / The Psychological Record
But what I found is the same situational factors that affected obedience in Milgram's experiments still operate today," said Burger.
Obedience rates remain unchanged even after 50 years by Asian News International
Milgram's experiment at Yale -- spurred by a curiosity as to how Germans during Hitler's reign could have allowed the Holocaust to continue unabated -- famously placed subjects before a gizmo that they were told would deliver painful shocks to an unseen (and nonexistent) individual who ostensibly was the subject being studied.
A TERRIFYING LOOK AT HUMAN BEHAVIOR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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