GVPT 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nazi Party
17 Oct 2014
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Three beliefs against the experiment: (1) the people studied were not typical (2) subjects did not believe they were actually getting shocked (3)you can"t generalize from the laboratory to the real-world. First study they used yale students, next people from the public. On follow up questionnaire, 61% of participants believed they were shocking the learner. You are observing traits common to all social situations and there are parallels you can draw between the lab and the real-world situations so yes, you can compare them. Common psychological process is involved with both the experiment and nazi germany. Narrative is based off of pretrial examination records browning found. Men interviewed don"t try to put themselves in good light 20 years later. There have been no evidence found of severe dire consequences for killing civilians. Only small things like serving extra time or demotion of rank. The majority of jews were killed by hand, up close.
