2025年1月17日 · Milgram (1963) 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.

Beginning on August 7, 1961, 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. Participants were led to believe that ...

2025年1月30日 · Milgram experiment, controversial series of experiments examining obedience to authority conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. In the experiment, an authority figure, the conductor of the experiment, would instruct a volunteer participant, labeled the “teacher,” to administer painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to the ...

4 天之前 · The Milgram experiment is among the most important and most ever influential experimental investigations in the whole of psychology, which underlines obedience, authority, and moral decision-making. Regardless of the ethical questions raised by the experiment, it has undoubtedly given great insight into how human behaviour functions, especially ...

2024年9月14日 · In the realm of social psychology, Milgram’s work sparked a wave of research into obedience, conformity, and social influence. It inspired countless studies and theoretical models, helping to shape our understanding of how individuals interact with social structures and authority figures.

2025年1月23日 · Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority. Milgram's obedience experiments forced a subject to play the role of a "teacher" who was instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to a "student" whenever they answered a ...

2024年7月22日 · The Milgram Experiment, conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s, remains one of the most controversial and influential studies in the history of psychology. This groundbreaking experiment aimed to investigate the extent to which individuals would comply with authority figures, even when their actions conflicted with ...

2024年10月4日 · Learn about Milgram's obedience study for your A Level exam. Includes information about the aim, sample, procedure, findings & conclusion.

Milgram was a young, Harvard-trained social psychologist working at Yale University when he initiated the first in a series of very similar experiments. The experiments were designed to understand how people could be made to obey orders that would involve causing another person considerable pain or even death.

2024年9月14日 · Explore Milgram's controversial obedience experiment, its methodology, findings, ethical concerns, and lasting impact on social psychology research.