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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The Discoveries of Obedience Obedience; what does the word really mean? According to Griggs (2012), “Obedience is following the commands of a persons authority”(p.331). A psychologist named Milgram decided to take obedience deeper and studied it from the history to his basic discoveries and later results. Taking a look back at history for example, “My Lai Massacre, where soldiers were ordered to shoot the innocent villagers, including children, women and the elderly”(Griggs 2012). This is a prime
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Evaluation points: Explanations of Obedience Agentic state Milgram’s participants knew it was wrong but put the responsibility on the experimenter At the Nuremberg Trials many Nazis said they were just following orders It explains why some people do not obey – they have stayed in the autonomous state A weakness is that there is no evidence that this shift takes place and it cannot be measured. The theory is vague and does not explain fully why or how the shift takes place. One way in
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it wasn’t about what I did, no, that it was all about complete and total obedience to God, that He would be able to say, “Well done, my good and FAITHFUL servant.” 2. What do the Steans mean on page 15 when they say that God wants to bless you, but not give you an easy life? I believe the Stearns mean that the ultimate blessing that we can receive from God in this life is to be used by Him, to have walked in obedience to Him. It is in the times when we are faithful to Him, that we are made
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Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity), as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform
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Conformity and Obedience The term Social Influence is used to describe what happens when an individual’s opinions, behaviours of emotions are affected or changed due to the influences of another person or persons. This might be Normative Social Influence or Informational Social Influence. Normative often results in compliance as people often put their own opinions to one side and go along with the majority whereas informational could well be minority led, as it is based on an informed point of view
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Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence, the need to be liked, accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three
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Dear Mr Baddeley, I am writing in response to your letter of complaint about my obedience experiment. I feel that I have done nothing wrong I would like to convince you that I have in no way ashamed the BPS. Firstly, my work was of practical value as it showed that individuals have a tendency towards destructive obedience. I believe that by showing the results of this experiment, it would have wider benefits to society as it could avoid such incidents in the future, as the one which triggered my
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Obedience and Conformity Experiments Response Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes”. In the experiment videos we watched, the subjects had obedience and believed in the authority figure in each setting. If these subjects did not believe or be obedient to the authority figure, the experiment would not have worked. I feel like obedience to an authority figure is something that is naturally instilled in us. When we were younger
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Obedience. In July of 1963 a psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram eternally sealed his fate in psychological journals almost over-night with a single study, the obedience to authority figures experiment. The original point and intended purpose of the experiment was to see how long a subject would inflict pain on another in order to please an authority figure. The entire experiment was designed to answer the increasingly relevant question at the time, “Could the Nazi’s have just been following
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Describe a key issue in Social Psychology and explain using concepts, theories and research from Social Psychology (12 marks) Our key issue is whether or not social psychology can explain obedience to authority during conflict leading to the harm of others. This issue is about how people, generally in the army, will obey their superior officers in orders which can lead to the harm of innocent civilians. These orders go against their training (soldiers are trained not to harm civilians), and will
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One of the subjects from the previous class that caught my attention was the section about research ethics. We touched on two different experiments that were run: Little Albert and Milgram’s Obedience studies. Now, it is thought that both studies were unethical to perform. As a person that is interested in the field of healthcare, ethics is a subject that interests me. An ethical issue was brought to my attention at my workplace about a week ago. I work as a microbiologist in a lab. We receive
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Erick Borgen English 101 Mrs. Holladay February 16th 2015 Rough Draft Rebel without a cause "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."- Benjamin Franklin. Millions of people in our history, maybe even billions have challenged some type of tyranny or structure. There’s are many rebels that we are not exposed to. We know George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther king, Mahatma Gandhi and the list goes on and on. In “One World, Many Cultures”
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Obedience and Charity: Still the Same Obedience and charity were values among cultures that were treated with a great deal or respect. These cultural values depicted the being of a person. If someone obeyed a rule or aspect of culture, they were considered respectful or obedient. If someone completed charity, they were considered generous, helping and sympathetic. These values are not of no importance, they are to be taken with great respect. Obedience and charity can be showed throughout various
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Public Obedience to Trainee Police Officers Report aims: • Outline Milgram’s obedience study work. • Explain how the findings can help prepare trainee police officers for working within the community. • Explain why the work of Milgram relates to trainee police officers working with the public in the community. Background Stanley Milgram was a psychologist. After the Second World War he sought to find out how ordinary people could commit extraordinary acts of violence. He conducted obedience studies
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70 November 18, 2014 Response Remix: Obedience in Human Nature The Collins English Dictionary Defines Human Nature as “the qualities common to Humanity” (Human Nature). These are the things that separate us from other species. The way we think, act, and communicate with each other. It has been suggested by some that one such quality is obedience. Specifically, our obedience to a perceived authority, even when it means abandoning our own conscience. Obedience is apart of everyones life in one way
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The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist, Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment, two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss, though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual, called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room, administering memory related
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how certain people react when placed in positions of authority over others. Milgram preformed a series of studies on "Obedience to Authority," which began at Yale University. Milgram’s experiment proved how people will obey authority even when it violates their core values and leads them to harm others. According to Milgram in “The Perils of Obedience,” “For many people, obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct”
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RESEARCH ON STANLEY MILGRAM 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. Milgram (1963) wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. He examined justifications for acts of genocide
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Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22) poses a crucial test for both the father and son as God challenges Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice. As he follows God’s commands, the primary aim of the test is to teach Abraham that obedience and commitment are vital to keeping covenants. Obedience to covenant obligations bring a guarantee of the fulfillment of God’s promises and fresh bestowal of the blessings that goes with covenant keeping. The literal setting of the story is Mount Moriah and has symbolic meaning
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types are that of obedience and looks. The whole point of dog shows that are focused around looks is to find the perfect representative of each breed of dogs. Each dog competes with other dogs within the same breed against each other and they are judged based on height, weight, markings, and many other physical features to see which one is closest to having the perfect look that all breeders strive to create. Obedience trials are completely opposite. When dogs compete for obedience, they are judged
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Conformity and obedience P3 Conformity means that you do something the same as someone else, in accordance to social standards or rules set or an agreement. Obedience is when you listen to someone; to obey is when you follow an order from someone who is of a higher authority than you are. There are 2 types of conformity Private conformity: change of beliefs that occur when a person privately accepts the position taken by others. Public conformity: superficial change in overt behavior, without
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questioned the ethics of the study at the time. Milgram described instances where subjects became engrossed in the technical machinery, possibly seeing themselves as mere technicians so as to transfer ethical responsibility to the experimenter, (Milgram, Obedience to Authority, 1974). Milgram termed this an ‘agentic state’, the participants stop seeing themselves as responsible and see themselves as an agent for another, i.e. the experimenter. Milgram also used the term ‘Counteranthropomorphism’ – where subjects
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worthy of moral consideration. For example, in the Rwandan genocide the influential Hutu-controlled radio station encouraged Hutu listeners to murder their Tutsi neighbours by calling the minority Tutsi cockroaches. Genocide focuses secondly on obedience to authority.
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In Milgram’s article, the Peril’s of Obedience an American psychologist teacher at Yale University firml believed that humans were naturally aggressive or only under authority. He conducted an experiment where The teacher is a genuinely naïve subject who has come to the laboratory for the experiment. The learner, or victim, is actually an actor who receives no shock at all. The point of the experiment is to see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in having to conduct
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way or not. (obedience to authority) The individual is faced with the choice of whether to comply with a direct order from a person with higher status, or whether to defy the order. Social Influence Motivation Obedience Direct order from someone with perceived authority Fear of punishment, belief in legitimacy of authority Milgram set out to investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority even when required to injure an innocent person. Research into obedience – Milgram
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Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy and Franco of Spain etc. (paraphrased). (Jonathan Blundell 2001). Usually, the holder of power has an advantage over the people it is being exercised upon. That is why there is usually forceful compliance or obedience in the process. Coercive force is particularly useful in situations of imminent danger. Coercion may also be useful when dispute involves something of great value to the threatened, both in the initial and ongoing manoeuvres. For example, European
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Chaucer, follows several pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury from London. Many of those pilgrims are members of the clergy. The Monk makes decisions in his life that are wrong and unwarranted, and he breaks two important vows to God: poverty and obedience. The Parson on the contrary, makes good decisions and follows vows that show respect for God. The Monk and the Parson are both on the same journey, yet there are substantial variations in the way they go about making decisions in their lives. Chaucer
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prison study-If he asks subjects something, would they do it, acting either like prisoners or prison guards- they complied more than no one ever expected, had to call it off early * Obedience * Following direct commands (Most powerful form of social influence) * Ex: Milgram’s obedience study- would people obey Milgram when ordered to keep shocking someone or would they stop
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The Milgram Experiment The Milgram Study is a study of social obedience and human interaction with authority figures and conformity. The study began in July of 1961, and was conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. The date the experiment began hold some historical significance – it is three months after the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began. As stated, the experiment was to study the interactions humans have with authority figures, but the trial inspired
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