Jacob Stewart Dr. Wells English 101 20 September 2013 In the 1950’s‚ a series of experiments were performed by psychologist Solomon Asch on the effects peer pressure can have on someone that would otherwise be stalwart in their judgment. In the experiment‚ a group of young men were shown a line with three other lines of various lengths next to it‚ and asked to determine which of three lines matched the length of the first line. There was‚ however‚ a catch: all but one of the men were
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I watched the Milgram experiment during the first lecture. The result of the experiment was very shocking to me – over half of the subjects would keep shocking the ‘learners’ until the end just because the experimenters required them to do so‚ even though the learners cried desperately for help. I think this experiment has fully revealed the destructive side of authority‚ which can turn a mature and conscientious adult into a tool for punishment or even killing. The experiment reminds me of the
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Kevin Browning Hired Guns What are the limits of the government‚ which the majority cannot override? Does the government have the right to conscript its citizens and send them off to war? This raises the question of consent. Do we own ourselves? Does conscription violate the right of self possession? Mr. Sandel goes into great detail about Locks Government by Consent. The question of conscription or a draft by the military‚ is this action morally or ethically correct? It is discussed
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250 Marcia Clay 11/3/09 A Summary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of social psychology‚ conducted a research study beginning in July of 1961. This research measured the willingness of participants to either obey or disobey an authority figuring giving them on a conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram set up this experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person just
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The Stanley Milgram experiment takes normal everyday people and gives them orders to do horrible things. The test is to see if someone would do an awful act just on the basis of someone telling them to. This experiment speaks to the ’nature of responsibility’ and to see if the subject will stop the experiment due to its dangerous nature. The subject is tricked into thinking they are the teacher‚ and the other person in the room‚ an actor‚ is the learner. The teacher will ask the learner a series
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cases include‚ The Milgram Obedience and Authority experiment‚ The Stanford Prison experiment‚ and of course the Abu Ghraib scandal involving our own U.S. soldiers. While two of these instances were not intended to cause physical harm‚ they were all branded unethical due to the extent of not only the physical abuses that took place‚ but the painful psychological impact it left on those involved. One experiment‚ called The Milgram experiment‚ also raised ethical concern. The experiment consisted of 40
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Introduction Milgram Experiment Method 40 men were recruited for a lab experiment investigating “learning”. In exchange for their participation‚ each person was paid $4.50. After the WWII‚ Stanley Milgram a psychologist of Yale University posed a question‚ “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? These men were introduced to another participant who were actually actors. These men were given role
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After watching the Milgram experiment and the abuse that occur in Abu Ghraib prison. It is clear that leadership roles and authority position can both influence people to do thing that are harmful and bad to others. Leadership focuses on gaining people to follow them and is more based on free will. While authority has the power to tell people what to do. In the Milgram experiment many people back up why they continue administering shocks by stating‚ “Because an authority figure was telling them
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Stanley Milgram Journal Assignment Draft A psychologist named Stanley Milgram created an invention called the shock generator which included thirty different switches that had ranging voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so‚ even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment‚ 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment‚ you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects
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In the Milgram experiment‚ a man picks random people to participate in an experiment. They believe that they are helping discover the roles of punishment on behavior. Although‚ this is not true. The participants themselves are the ones being analyzed. The experiment is to discover how far someone would obey an instruction of harming another person‚ despite personal conflict. The participant and an actor are places in a room and “get to choose” their roles of either teacher or learner‚ although the
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