Milgram'S Obedience To Authority Experiment

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Submitted by scruffy_1960 on May 19, 2008

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Milgram'S Obedience To Authority Experiment

Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, designed a study focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. “He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on “obedience”—that they were just following orders of their superiors.” [1]
The design of this experiment was simple: two people would come into the psychology laboratory to take part in a study of memory and learning. One person would be the “teacher” and the other a “learner.” The experimenter explained that the study was concerned with the effects of...

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