PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Stanley Milgram, Deindividuation, Norm (Social)
30 Nov 2016
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Milgram"s experience involved teaching a subject to use shock punishment for learning. Teachers must give progressively higher shocks for incorrect responses from learners. The teacher is told to continue giving shocks, even when the learner is clearly in pain. Most (65%) subjects continue giving shocks until the end of the experiment. People display strong obedience, even to minimally powerful figures of authority. We are terrible judges at predicting our own behaviour. The ethics behind milgram"s experiment are highly controversial. The prestige of an institution influences the level of obedience in subjects. Yale university setting: 65% // run-down factory setting: The proximity between teacher and learner influences obedience levels in subjects. Teacher and learner are now placed in same room. The closer the teacher and learner the less likely it is that the. Learner will comply with the experiment until the end. Proximity to the experimenter influences the teacher"s obedience to shock learners.
