Stanley Milgram Experiments on Authority
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Today I will share an excerpt with you from the book Poor Charlie’s Almanack on “Stanley Milgram Experiments on Authority” which I found to be worth sharing on the aspects of Authority.
Stanley Milgram, born in 1933 in New York, grew up during World War II when Nazi atrocities became well known to the world. He earned a political science degree from Queens
College and went on to Harvard for a Ph.D. in social relations. He took a faculty position at Yale, where he conducted a classic experiment that pitted the subject’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority.
His experiment found that sixty five percent of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, despite the fact that the victim did nothing to deserve punishment. Milgram’s results have been used as partial explanation for the German atrocities of World War II.
College and went on to Harvard for a Ph.D. in social relations. He took a faculty position at Yale, where he conducted a classic experiment that pitted the subject’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority.Disclaimer: This excerpt is just shared for an educational purpose.
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