Milgram's Obedience To Authority Experiment 2009

Milgrams experimenter was granted the le-gitimacy of authority by virtue of his association with the experiment, the university, and perhaps even science. Sub-sequent discussions have raised questions about the nature of the experimenters authority. The Milgram experiment was an infamous study that looked at obedience to authority.

Learn what it revealed and the moral questions it raised. The Milgram Shock Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, tested obedience to authority. Participants were instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to another person, who was actually an actor, as they answered questions incorrectly.

In the early 1960s, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram experiment, controversial series of experiments examining obedience to authority conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. Shortly after Milgram published his results, new ethical guidelines (motivated in part by Milgram's work) made replicating the study impossible, leaving future generations to wonder if they...

Drawing on many unpublished documents from Milgram's personal archive at Yale University, this article traces the historical origins and early evolution of the obedience experiments. In 2009, researchers conducted a study designed to replicate Milgram's classic obedience experiment. In an article published in the APS Observer, psychologist Jerry Burger of Santa Clara University and author of the study described the relevance of Milgram's study today:

Jerry M. Burger conducted a partial replication of Milgram's obedience study in 2009, investigating whether similar levels of obedience still existed under modern ethical standards. Milgram's experiment as a negative exemplar of social science research.

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