Discuss ethical issues arising from studies of obedience to authority. Ethics are standards which distinguish between what is right and wrong‚ and psychological studies must comply with certain ethical guidelines. Studies face issues regarding whether the study is acceptable and justified. Some of these guidelines include deception‚ consent‚ psychological harm‚ right to withdraw‚ confidentiality and a thorough debriefing‚ which were produced to help psychologists resolve ethical issues in research
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Tuan Nguyen Professor Jill Moreno Ikari ENG 101 11 October 2013 Obedience and Civil Disobedience INTRODUCTION 20XX‚ the world has gone through dramatic changes. World War III largely devastated the whole world. The word “sovereign nation” doesn’t exist since most nations were merge into a large‚ totalitarian world government. It is one the darkest age since the dawn of human history. Technological capabilities has reached such an advanced state that human hardly need to serve themselves‚ everything
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Tax & Taxation The term ’tax’ has been derived from the French word taxe and etymologically‚ the Latin word taxare is related to the term ’tax’‚ which means ’to charge’. Tax is an obligatory payment in the part of the citizen without the expectation of any direct benefit. Taxation is the obligation of non-penal‚ yet compulsory transfer of resources from the private to the public sector levied on a basis of predetermined criteria and without reference to specific benefit received. It is one of the
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Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions on orders from an authority figure. Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure. In the 1960s‚ the social psychologist Stanley Milgram did a famous research study called the obedience study. It showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authority figures. Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram told his forty male volunteer research subjects that they were participating
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Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms or obedience to spouse
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Obedience Some of the darkest times in history have resulted from passive obedience‚ not from large acts of violence. Howard Zinn‚ a social activist‚ once stated “Historically‚ the most terrible things – war‚ genocide‚ and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience‚ but from obedience.” In many instances‚ leaders or dictators have taken over a specific group of people and caused them to obey their commands by frightening them with authority. Obedience appears as the main cause of war‚ genocide
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Obedience Ashley M. Martinez PSY/285 Stacie Flynn One of the most prominent studies of obedience in the study of psychology was performed by Stanley Milgram. The intent of this study was to research how far individuals would go in obeying a command while it involved hurting someone. Milgram’s curiosity to see how normal individuals could be influenced by enormity seems to be an influence for this study. My initial reaction to Milgram’s study video
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Obedience to Authority As a child growing up‚ everyone was told “respect your elders” or “listen and obey”. As children grow into teenagers‚ they start pushing the boundaries to see who they really need to obey. Throughout adulthood‚ though people have fewer and fewer authority figures as the years go by‚ everyone must obey someone. Though we all have someone to obey‚ when does the respectful obedience cross the line into dangerous territory? Obedience becomes dangerous when it becomes physically
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Obedience In this essay I am going to write on how obedience can affect individuals on how they would normally behave and integrate in society. The meaning of Obedience is a form of social influence where an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual‚ who is usually an authority figure. It is assumed that without such an order the person would not have acted in this way. (McLeod‚ 2007) Migram (1963) conducted a study on how obedient a person would be to an authority
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Society’s Tendency to Pass on Responsibility The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley Milgram is one of the most studied experiments in American history due to its wide-ranging social implications. The study gained popular attention because it aimed to provide some insight as to why the Holocaust had escalated in such a way. The study was designed around testing the degree of inflicted pain strangers would give to others‚ under orders by an experimenter. Not only did the study defy what
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