Behavioral study of obedience1 stanley milgram 2 yale university this article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. Stanley milgrams 1963, 1965, 1974 obedience studies. Article pdf available january 20 with 5,424 reads how we measure reads. Philip zimbardo, who conducted the famous stanford prison experiment, obedience to authority is milgrams fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions. Stanley milgrams 1960s experimental findings that people would administer apparently lethal electric shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure remain critical for understanding obedience. Yet, due to the ethical controversy that his experiments ignited, it is nowadays impossible to carry out direct experimental studies in this. The january 2009 issue of american psychologist also contained discussion from other psychologists about the possible comparisons between milgrams experiment and burgers study. Psychologist diana baumrind argues that stanley milgrams study of obedience did not meet ethical standards for research, because participants were subjected to a research design that. Stanley milgram left harvard in 1967 to return to his hometown, new york city, accepting a position as head of the social psychology program at the graduate center of the city university of new york. In 1963 milgram left yale to join the faculty of harvards social relations department. By doing this milgram could identify which factors affected obedience the dv. Milgrams experiment was designed to examine how far one individual will go in. Punishment is administered by means of a shock genera.
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