Milgram Experiment The Milgram experiment was to test obedience of authority figures. It was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience
In a series of experiments regarding obeying authority, Stanley Milgram found that “the physical presence of an authority is an important force contributing to the subject’s obedience or defiance”. Milgram concluded from his study that the proximity of an authoritative figure plays a huge role in determining whether or not the subject carried out the experiment. Specifically in the case of the Asian family, the daughter followed the directions
someone’s mind. We are all aware that cults exist to this day. People are still coerced into destructive institutions if they are given the right amount of persuasion. Another example of the daunting power of obedience is the experiment by Stanley Milgram. I learned from that experiment that most of us are obedient to a fault. If the responsibility falls on someone else, many people will even obey commands to hurt another person. The next study mentioned was particularly interesting to me because it pertains