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    The Milgram Experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram to determine whether the people that participated in the Holocaust where following orders involuntarily or voluntarily. The main problem that will be used to determine whether the experiment is ethical is the instructions Stanley gives the testers and their reactions after the administration of test commence. Studying the different principles and sections of the APA Code of Conduct, I believe Stanley has violated the Code of Conduct thus labeling

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    Stanley Milgram’s experiments have become some of the most well know experiments with obedience. In the 1960s Milgram set up an experiment to test obedience in a situation where following directions would cause pain to another person. In the study an actor pretended to be shocked by the participant. The participants were told when to administer these shocks by a person of authority, or in this case a man in a white lab coat. People would administer the shock even if it was set to fatal levels all

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    The experiment undertaken by Stanley Milgram in 1963 was supposed to answer some questions about obedience and raised some questions and answered some. At the time, that Milgram underwent the experiment, a Nazi war criminal was being trialed. Milgram wanted this experiment to answer whether this Nazi criminal and his followers were just accomplices to Hitler during the Holocaust or did they have some responsibility to it as well. The experiment went like this: there were three positions with one

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    In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, conducted a series of experiments known as the Milgram Experiments. These experiments were used to determine if people are governed by their own free will or a mindless obedience to what they consider to be authority. Milgram believed that the acts that occurred during WWII, mainly the near-genocide committed by the Germans, wasn’t free-will, but a mere following of orders. When this experiments were conducted, you required two subjects, one

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    What did Stanley Milgram seek to test in his experiments at Yale University? Milgram was interested in researching to see how far people would go to obey and instruction if it meant harming another person even if they disagreed with it. The main point was to see if for example normal/regular people were capable of the monstrosities that happened in WWII by the Germans. The learner was a person that was supposed to learn a specific behavior and if he got the answer wrong then the teacher was supposed

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    The Milgram Obedience Experiment is very interesting experiment. Inspired by the Nuremberg trials, Milgram’s experiment studied how far someone would hurt a man when under the sight of authority. 65% of the participants continued regardless of the pain felt by the ”student”, who actually was an actor. This experiment taught us a lot about the herd mentality of humans. Once the “herd” is convinced that the ideology is good they feel obligated regardless of what they feel. We think that the higher

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    Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment on the nature of obedience during the 1960’s has sparked both controversy and admiration in equal proportion. This report will discuss the methods involved in this, with a particular focus on a variation which resulted in 65 percent of participants complying with to electrocute another person to what they thought was a dangerous level. It will also review ethical issues and criticisms raised as a result, recent research on the topic of obedience as well as the

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    Milgram Experiment Research Paper In 1961, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted a controversial experiment on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined the justifications for acts of genocide given by those accused at the World War II Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience,” and that they were “just following orders from their superiors” (McLeod, Saul. Milgram Experiment, Simply Psychology). The procedure

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    Stanley Milgram’s experiment in the 1960’s focused on the obedience of people from a higher authority. Milgram was influenced by the Holocaust, but was interested more in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was a German Nazi, whose job was to deport Jews to ghettos and extermination camps during World War II. He was captured in 1960 and charged with facilitating and managing deportation of Jews. His trial was widely publicized in Israel, where he told his story and that the only reason he proceed

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    a position of power from being normal to crazed. In the milgram experiment uses students from yale university were used to show a relation between position of power and being evil, the experiment showed that there was a relation. Saul Mcleod conveys through the article "THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT" that people put in positions of power, are more likely to be cruel to the people they are in power of. The other experiment the stanford experiment was to see how many people would kill another person when

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