Milgram Obedience to Authority Experiment
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A Milgram Obedience to Authority Experiment is a social experiment that measures the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure instructing them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.
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- See: Superior Orders, Social Psychology, Experimental Psychology.
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2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Retrieved:2015-11-28.
- The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, mostly young male students from Yale, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. The experiments began in July 1961, in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular question at that particular time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" The experiments have been repeated many times in the following years with consistent results within differing societies, although not with the same percentages around the globe.
1974
- (Milgram, 1974) ⇒ Stanley Milgram. (1974). “Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View." Taylor & Francis. ISBN:0422745804