Milgram's Experiment
Social Experiment Paper The Milgram’s Experiment The Milgram’s Experiment was conducted by Social psychology by the name of Stanley Milgram, he created this experiment on how being in the presents of an authority figures would affect the way people behaved. This study was conducted in July 1969, just one year after the trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram developed this experiment to answer the question "Could it be that Eichmann and his millions of accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (The Milgram Experiment by Saul McLeod published 2007) One of the most horrific example that Milgram
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As you look back all though out history, which has example after example of people obeying authority figures. The definition of obedience in human behavior, is "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure. Obedience is normally distinguished as compliance to instructions received form an authority figure, or a behavior that has been influenced by peers. Obedience can be seen as immoral, amoral and moral”. (Colman, Andrew (2009) Even as we go back to the begin of time reading the Bible it starts with the story of Adam and Eve the first man and woman who ever walked on the face of the earth. God had told them that they could eat from any tree in the garden, but there were not allowed to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve disobeyed God by eating from the tree, and then offering some of the tasty fruit to her husband Adam. Since both Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they were punished. For the first time Adam and Eve noticed they were naked they felt embarrassed, and guilty for disobeying God. Story’s like the one about Adam and Eve are all though out the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible has a lot to say about obedience, another well-known story that talks about obedience is the story of Moses and the burning bush. God told Moses to go Pharaoh the king of the Israelites and tell him to let his people go. Moses did not want to go he was worried that pharaoh would not listen to him. Moses keep making excuses about why he could not go. But God keep telling Moses that he would be with him the whole time if he would just take the first steep. Moses new he had to obey God that he could not let him down so he went to Pharaoh. We see how important obedience is to God. “Deuteronomy 11:26–28 sums it up like this "Obey and you will
As you look back all though out history, which has example after example of people obeying authority figures. The definition of obedience in human behavior, is "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure. Obedience is normally distinguished as compliance to instructions received form an authority figure, or a behavior that has been influenced by peers. Obedience can be seen as immoral, amoral and moral”. (Colman, Andrew (2009) Even as we go back to the begin of time reading the Bible it starts with the story of Adam and Eve the first man and woman who ever walked on the face of the earth. God had told them that they could eat from any tree in the garden, but there were not allowed to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve disobeyed God by eating from the tree, and then offering some of the tasty fruit to her husband Adam. Since both Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they were punished. For the first time Adam and Eve noticed they were naked they felt embarrassed, and guilty for disobeying God. Story’s like the one about Adam and Eve are all though out the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible has a lot to say about obedience, another well-known story that talks about obedience is the story of Moses and the burning bush. God told Moses to go Pharaoh the king of the Israelites and tell him to let his people go. Moses did not want to go he was worried that pharaoh would not listen to him. Moses keep making excuses about why he could not go. But God keep telling Moses that he would be with him the whole time if he would just take the first steep. Moses new he had to obey God that he could not let him down so he went to Pharaoh. We see how important obedience is to God. “Deuteronomy 11:26–28 sums it up like this "Obey and you will