'Review Of Stanley Milgramss Experiments On Obedience'

The article named ‘’Review of Stanley Milgramss Experiments on Obedience’’ by Diana Baumrind looks at Milgrams experiment of learning, and then discusses whether Milgram violated the rights of his subjects, or did a beneficial experiment for humanity.

In the article, the procedure of the experiment in a laboratory is described. It involves a participant who gives a victim increasing electric shocks as punishments in the context of a learning experiment. In this environment some of the subjects experienced very high levels of nervous tension, which was not ordinary responses to an experiment.

Baumrind, who is a psychologist, believes that it’s not acceptable to test peoples obedience to authority in a laboratory because Milgrams study