Milgram Experiment


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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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(4) Their results have been used by historians to explain perpetrator choices, (5) while providing a case study to others, who contextualized the "Milgram experiment" itself and provided an incisive, even scathing critique of its presuppositions.
Toward a General Theory of Action in Total War and Genocide: Evgeny Finkel on Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
How many enthusiasts are taking part in a contorted variant of the famed Stanley Milgram experiment?
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As we learnt with the Milgram experiment, people tend to place greater weight on the opinions of authority figures (this is true regardless of its actual content).
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In the infamous Milgram experiment, originally conducted by the psychologist Stanley Milgram at Yale University in 1961, volunteers administered what they believed were high-voltage electric shocks to a human experimental subject, simply because a temporary authority figure made verbal suggestions to continue (Milgram 1963).
The Gordon Gekko effect: The role of culture in the financial industry
He conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures.
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In the Milgram experiment, American volunteers were told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks of mounting severity to a person (whom they couldn't see) who failed to answer some simple questions correctly.
Mixing psychology and theatre; Some of the most eyebrow-raising psychological experiments of the 20th Century are the substance of a new play opening in Newcastle, as David Whetstone reports
I have already pointed out the clear-cut deception and possible abuse of personal power in the case of the Milgram experiment. Covert research is sometimes very intrusive and clearly violates the privacy of research subjects.
Moral perspectives on covert research
I know this might be a bit of a jump, but the Milgram Experiment came to my mind in my dealings with a male checkout assistant at a supermarket recently.
Checkout operator reminded me of Auschwitz
(31) Compare the Stanford Prison Experiment with the Milgram experiment, where participants (the teachers) were requested to send electric shocks to punish another set of participants (the learners) whenever they failed to answer questions correctly.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
I tried to remind him of the "authoritarian personality" study of the Frankfurt school and the "Milgram experiment" in the US, both of which show that most people, when certain conditions are met, tend to follow orders and tend to do whatever an authority orders them to do, without questioning it.
Turkey and Germany's past atrocities
The war, as they say, was an organized bore and we hadn't yet learned of the Milgram experiment. Promise.
1947
Kosanke exposes the horrifying consequences of statism to all societies by connecting, in my favorite portion of the book, Hitler's Operation Himmler, Reichstag Fire Decree, and Enabling Act of 1933 to operation Northwoods to the Milgram experiment to the War on Terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Transportation Security Administration.
Review of Kosanke's Instead of Politics
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