Milgram started his experimentsin 1961, shortly after the trial of the World War II criminal Adolf Eichmann had begun. Eichmann’s defense that he was merely following instructions when he ordered the death…
Why is the Milgram experiment considered unethical? : …
It was considered unethical because it inflicted potentially lasting psychological harm and distress on the subjects (those who thought they were inflicting pain on others), subjecting …
Why (almost) everything you know about Milgram is …
Milgram's participants were told the experiments were a study of punishment and its effects on learning – they acted as 'teachers' giving electric shocks to 'learners' when they misremembered the second word from a list of …
The Milgram Experiment: Summary, Conclusion, Ethics
In 2009, Jerry Burger replicated Milgram’s famous experiment at Santa Clara University with new safeguards in place: the highest shock level was 150 volts, and participants were told that the shocks were fake immediately …
The Milgram Experiment: Theory, Results, & Ethical Issues
Milgram’s experiments generated controversy because in several key ways they did not conform to this expectation (Nicholson, 2011). Primarily, participants were not warned about how …
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Milgram started his experimentsin 1961, shortly after the trial of the World War II criminal Adolf Eichmann had begun. Eichmann’s defense that he was merely following instructions when he ordered the death…
It was considered unethical because it inflicted potentially lasting psychological harm and distress on the subjects (those who thought they were inflicting pain on others), subjecting …
Milgram's participants were told the experiments were a study of punishment and its effects on learning – they acted as 'teachers' giving electric shocks to 'learners' when they misremembered the second word from a list of …
In 2009, Jerry Burger replicated Milgram’s famous experiment at Santa Clara University with new safeguards in place: the highest shock level was 150 volts, and participants were told that the shocks were fake immediately …
Milgram’s experiments generated controversy because in several key ways they did not conform to this expectation (Nicholson, 2011). Primarily, participants were not warned about how …