Should social scientists be permitted to conduct replications of Milgram’s obedience experiments? Zimbardo’s prison simulation? Can you justify such research as permissible within the current ASA ethical standards? If not‚ do you believe that these standards should be altered so as to permit Milgram-type research? Social scientists should not be allowed to undertake replications of Milgram’s obedience experiment and Zimbardo’s prison simulation at face value just as other instances in the same field
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Obedience Summary Stanley Milgrams experiments are some of the most recognized behavior experiments in psychology today. Milgrams most known experiment was ‘shocking’ to people and has also been controversial ethically. As Ian Parker stated it would “make his name and destroy his reputation.” Parkers Obedience essay talks much of Milgrams life before the experiment and how the psychology community thought about his ethics. Parker talks of Milgram struggling to place his findings in a scientific
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there are many other factors that contribute to what makes people do evil acts. The social psychology concepts of obedience‚ power‚ and the fundamental attribution error are explored throughout this paper through case studies of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ the Jonestown cult‚ and the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghriab. Low Effort Thinking Each day people encounter peers‚ family‚ and colleagues. Throughout different social circles and situations people evaluate situations and each other using their
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Stanley Milgram is a famous psychologist who focused his studies on authority and peoples reaction and obedience to it. His famous experiment and it’s results were groundbreaking in psychology‚ surprising both psychologists and regular people alike. First I will discuss the reason for Milgrims study of obedience to authority. Then I will explain the experiment‚ its formulation‚ and its results. Finally I will cover the influence of the experiment on psychology and society. Stanley Milgrim was
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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24/7. Even after the prisoners were harmed physically and psychological the study continued. It was not until Zimbardo’s graduate assistant and current wife‚ Christine Maslach‚ mentioned her worries about the events that were happening was the experiment terminated. I also felt that by Zimbardo because apart of the study was not a good idea. Zimbardo had a dual relationship with in the study‚ as the researcher and the prison warden. By becoming the prison warden‚ one can say that the guards felt
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Stanley Milgram’s experiment in 1963‚ in which he set up a scenario that convinced people they were harming an individual they had met only minutes before through electrical
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justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported after they
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Critique of Stanley Milgram’s “Behavioral Study of Obedience” Stanley MIlgram is a Yale University social psychologist who wrote “Behavioral Study of Obedience”‚ an article which granted him many awards and is now considered a landmark. In this piece‚ he evaluates the extent to which a participant is willing to conform to an authority figure who commands him to execute acts that conflict with his moral beliefs. Milgram discovers that the majority of participants do obey to authority. In this
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Nicole Johnson Jennifer Ciccone Eng-111 3 Aug 13 Milgram Obedience Study One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment 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"
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