PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, Deindividuation
7 Jan 2018
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In 1963, stanley milgram of yale university conducted an experiment in order to understand human motivation and obedience to authority. An individual should always resist orders that violate ethical or moral standards of. Milgram found that 65% of all subjects continued to the very end of the shock. There is a very strong tendency of obedience to authority, even if this power is limited. One possible explanation for the extraordinary degree of obedience was the experiment inherent prestige associated with a faculty member at yale. Same experiment in a run down office presented a result of 50% instead of 65% When a student was put in charge, obedience went down even more. Another possibility was that subjects were physically separated from the learner. A final factor influencing obedience was the proximity of the experimenter to the teacher. Hofling and his colleagues used real nurses in a hospital to test the effects of obedience to authority.
