CHYS 1F90 Study Guide - Final Guide: Adolf Eichmann, Stanley Milgram

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Dawn Zinga

Document Summary

Yale university, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the world war ii, nuremberg war criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. The experiments began in july 1961, a year after the trial of adolf eichmann in jerusalem. Could we call them all accomplices?" (milgram, 1974). Milgram (1963) wanted to investigate whether germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the nazi killings in world war ii. Milgram selected participants for his experiment by newspaper advertising for male participants to take part in a study of learning at yale university. The procedure was that the participant was paired with another person and they drew lots to find out who would be the learner" and who would be the.