PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Thomas Blass, Jean Meeus, Tunxis Community College
23 Nov 2020
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When stanley milgram published the results, a headline read: sixty-five percent in test. Milgram had pierced the public consciousness and was poised to become one of the most important and controversial figures in psychology and beyond. In a fascinating biography, thomas blass tells of how milgram became interested in obedience and the impact his studies have had on social scientists, legal scholars, the military, and popular culture around the world. Wim meeus and quinten raaijmakers constructed a moral dilemma like milgram"s. Rather than command participants to inflict physical pain, however, they arranged for them to cause psychological harm. When participants arrived, they met a confederate supposedly there to take a test as part of a job interview. If the confederate passed the test, he"d get the job; if he failed, he would not. the experimenter told participants to distract the test-taking applicant by making an escalating series of harassing remarks.
