What Was The Purpose Of The Milgram Experiment

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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. I believe this experiment was very important to society now. It might not be ethical but the results of the experiment was surprising. According to Saul McLeod, He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the…show more content…
This is important to my research because it brings up the point that the experiment as a whole was fake rather than the small details of the experiment. For example, the purpose of the “experiment” was to test people and the way they learn. They used shock therapy to see if that would help them learn, but in actuality, they were testing the subjects on whether or not they would follow authority even if they are injuring another human being. I am specifically interested in the ethics of this experiment because at the time, the Milgram experiment ethics seemed reasonable, but by the stricter controls in modern psychology, this experiment would not be allowed today. Milgram's generation needed conclusive answers about the final solution, and some closure on this chapter of human history. Was human nature inherently evil or could reasonable people be coerced by authority into unnatural actions? I find that topic very interesting and worth researching. The experiment applies to other tragic events later in history other than the holocaust as well. The experiment is more relevant than most people…show more content…
This perspective is demonstrated through a qualitative analysis of audio recordings and transcripts from two of Milgram's experimental conditions: “voice-feedback” and “women as subjects.” The analysis draws attention to the way in which participants could draw the experimenter into a process of negotiation over the continuation of the experimental session, something which could lead to quite radical departures from the standardized experimental procedure, and points to the ineffectiveness of Milgram's fourth prod (You have no other choice, you must go on). This is important to my research because these observations are discussed in terms of their implications for theory and research on disobedience or obedience, with a specific focus on the concepts of choice and agency and the nature and meaning of disobedience or
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