and weaknesses of the Milgram obedience study. Should the study have taken place? Milgram’s study is a very controversial study as it broke many ethical guidelines and has many methodological issues‚ but it also had many strengths. One strength of the Milgram study on obedience is that the experiment was reliable as it can be replicated and the results are consistent. The fact that the experiment was a Lab experiment makes the study even more reliable as lab experiments are easy to replicate
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In our society‚ there are many social norms we are expected to abide by. These unwritten rules and standards of behavior often go unnoticed‚ leaving society to take them for granted. We only become truly aware of the norms of society when they are actually violated. When a violation occurs‚ those who continue to conform may respond with positive or negative sanctions‚ such as humor‚ alarm‚ irritation‚ fear‚ or a wide variety of emotions. Our society also relies on language as its major bases for
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Serious Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles
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crime or drug abuse. After all screening‚ they was left with 24 males. Zimbardo explained that prisoners and guard’s roles were picked by a simple “toss of the coin”. Each volunteer‚ regardless of role was paid $15 per day. The experiment initially
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Stanley Milgram Author’s Name Institution’s Name Stanley Milgram Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist of the 20th century‚ born in the city of New York. He has made many contributions in sociology by writing and publishing many articles‚ but few of them for which Stanley is known for are ‘Obedience to Authority’‚ ‘Familiar Stranger’‚ and ’Small World Experiment’. Stanley Milgram was working as a psychologist at Yale University when he conducted his famous experiment on Obedience
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FINAL-TERM PAPER: HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT Cassandra N. Phillips Keiser University December 11‚ 2012 PSY 1012-Introduction to Psychology Professor Balkaran HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT In 1966‚ the psychiatrist Charles K. Hofling conducted a two-part experiment that was inspired by Milgram’s research in obedience (Milgram‚ S.‚ 1963 & 1965). It consisted of a survey and field study on obedience in the nurse-physician relationship. Primarily‚ what happens when nurses
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is designed in two parts. The first part of the essay will attempt to explain ethics in a general context and evaluate the reasons why we need ethics when people undertake research. The second part of the essay will focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ by Zimbardo in 1971 and critically analyse its relation to and impact on ethics. Ethics is involved in many parts of human life. One example is to guide humans to make decisions (Darwall‚ 1998). Humans make decisions because these decisions are
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In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted a series of social psychology experiments to study the conditions under which the people are obedient to authorities and personal conscience. The purpose of his experiment was to determine whether or not people were particularly obedient to the higher authority who instructed them to perform various acts even if they violate their own morals and ethics. It was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology as it has
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Stanford experiment 4-13-2015 The research experiment was conducted in 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo and some of his colleagues. They would build a mock prison with fake guards‚ fake prisoners‚ even a fake warden; all of this being conducted in a fake jail house where Phillip and his colleagues would observe everything from afar. The participants were chosen from a group of volunteers that had no criminal background‚ had no psychological issues‚ and had no extreme medical conditions. The experiment was to
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Contesting the “nature” of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies Really Show. From the 1960’s to the 1970’s understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classical studies. Two such studies include Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram’s research on obedience to authority. This research has revealed that many times people obey inactively and unthinkably to both roles that authorities offer as well as orders given to them. However‚ recently‚ this belief has
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