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Milgram Experiment Revisited

Milgram Experiment Revisited. Similarities. Same premise/set up – shocked a learner for a “wrong” answer

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Milgram Experiment Revisited

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  1. Milgram Experiment Revisited

  2. Similarities • Same premise/set up – shocked a learner for a “wrong” answer • Used the same words in memory test and experimenter’s lab coat

  3. Changes – More Ethical • Stopped the procedures at 150-volts • Used a two-step screening process to exclude individuals who might have a negative reaction • Participants were told 3 times they could withdraw from study at any point and still get paid • Administered a sample shock to participant – 15-volt instead of 45-volt

  4. Changes – More Ethical • Allowed virtually no time to elapse before informing participants that learner received no shocks • Experimenter who ran the study was also a clinical psychologist who was to end the session if he saw signs of stress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqNP9HRy7Y

  5. Can this happen in “real life”? • Read the case from Canton, Massachusetts • What are the similarities? • Other examples: • McDonald’s Compliance Case • Stanford Prison Experiment

  6. Stanford Prison Experiment • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14564182 • “Human behavior is much more under the control of situational forces than most of us recognize or want to acknowledge. In a situation that implicitly gives permission for suspending moral values, many of us can be morphed into creatures alien to our usual natures. My research and that of my colleagues has catalogued the conditions for stirring the crucible of human nature in negative directions. Some of the necessary ingredients are: diffusion of responsibility, anonymity, dehumanization, peers who model harmful behavior, bystanders who do not intervene, and a setting of power differentials.” – Philip Zimbardo

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