Stanley Milgram's Experiment - 1974

"Obedience and Individual Responsibility" Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted a study 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" - - that they were just following orders of their superiors. In the experiment, so-called "teachers" (who were actually the unknowing subjects of the experiment) were recruited by Milgram. They were asked administer an electric shock of increasing intensity to a "learner" for each mistake he made during the experiment. The fictitious story given to these "teachers" was that the experiment was exploring effects of punishment (for incorrect responses) on learning behavior. The "teacher" was not aware that the "learner" in the study was actually an actor - - merely indicating discomfort as the "teacher" increased the electric shocks. When the "teacher" asked whether increased shocks should be given he/she was verbally encouraged to continue. Sixty percent of the "teachers" obeyed orders to punish the learner to the very end of the 450-volt scale! No subject stopped before reaching 300 volts! At times, the worried "teachers" questioned the experimenter, asking who was responsible for any harmful effects resulting from shocking the learner at such a high level. Upon receiving the answer that the experimenter assumed full responsibility, teachers seemed to accept the response and continue shocking, even though some were obviously extremely uncomfortable in doing so. The study raised many questions about how the subjects could bring themselves to administer such heavy shocks. More important to our interests are the ethical issues raised by such an experiment itself. What right does a researcher have to expose subjects to such stress? What activities should be and not be allowed in marketing research? Does the search for knowledge always justify such "costs" to subjects? Who should decide such issues? _______________________________ Thanks to the original uploader

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joybringer (2008-09-29)

Milgram tests should be massively driven through the population and those 60% of non-personnal obedient morons exterminated. At last a lead to real progress! Thank you Science!

 oddeven (2008-09-29)

more joy brought to our attention. Luddites unite!

dynasoar (2008-09-30)

This contains footage from Milgram's own camera. Last copy of the 16mm I knew about had decayed beyond use. I very much appreciate someone tracking this down and making it available. If this doesn't scare the shit out of you, you're part of the problem. As scary as the implication of the movie is the fact that many people find the critical scenes extremely funny. They don't laugh with nervousness, they laugh like it's a 3 Stooges movie. Far more people than you imagine are very sick.

yumekichigai (2009-10-13)

@dynasoar
that certainly is nervous laughter. They don't know what to do and their stress mechanism is to laugh. People do it all the time, it's not as though they are sadistic in these studies.
the point of this study was not to prove that people are cruel, but to show the massive power that the authority figure can have on the average person, making them do something they would never ordinarily do (such as what happened in Germany during WWII when the vast majority of the population felt that they were forced to persecute others because authority figures told them too). This study is to show that it is entirely possible, not that people are sick or twisted

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