PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jargon, Philip Zimbardo, Deindividuation
23 Apr 2016
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These are questions that come to mind under extraordinary times of violence, death and madness that comes with war. In war crimes trials, the accused often tried to excuse their actions by saying that they were only following orders. These arguments can be rejected on the founds that an individual should always resist orders that violate ethical or moral standards go human rights. These are the fascinating questions addressed in some of the most famous and infamous experiments in social psychology. In 1963, stanley milgram of yale university, began recruiting subjects for what would become a very interesting and troubling journal into understanding human motivation and obedience to authority. Let"s imagine the experience of being a subject in this study. You arrive at the lab and meet a fellow subject in the waiting room. The experimenter explains that the purpose of this study is to examine the effect of punishment on learning.
