PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Demand Characteristics, Earlobe
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Psyc 215 lecture 18 obedience to authority. When we read about the milgram learning (obedience to authority) study, we are surprised by it because it doesn"t feel like something we would normally do. It seems strange that someone would do something harmful to someone else. Milgram"s experiment demonstrates what happens when people are put in such a situation. The majority (2/3) of participants completed the study, administering lethal they were told to, despite experiencing extreme discomfort while doing shocks because so. The power of the situation referring to milgram study. Psychiatrists and lay people did not predict anywhere near this amount of. >nazi trials at the time revealed only following orders: excuse: assumed such obedience could never happen in the us. >but people in milgram study were also only following orders. Even social psychologists, who were interested in the power of the social. >some researchers thought you could learn all you needed to know by what they would do.