Mini: Milgram's Shock Study: Exploring Obedience To Authority

Are people willing to compromise their values and blindly obey authority figures given the right circumstances? Stanley Milgram certainly believed so. We'll examine this classic psychological experiment and present some ways it this hypothesis could be flawed.

References:

Cherry, K. (2019, September 16). Milgram's experiments and the perils of
obedience. Retrieved January 10, 2020, from https://www.verywellmind.com/
the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243

McLeod, S. A. (2017, Feb 05). The Milgram shock experiment. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

Milgram experiment. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2020, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgramexperiment#Criticalreception

Romm, C. (2015, January 8). Rethinking one of psychology's most infamous
experiments. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/
health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous experiments/384913/

Are people willing to compromise their values and blindly obey authority figures given the right circumstances? Stanley Milgram certainly believed so. We’ll examine this classic psychological experiment and present some ways it this hypothesis could be flawed.

References:

Cherry, K. (2019, September 16). Milgram’s experiments and the perils of
obedience. Retrieved January 10, 2020, from https://www.verywellmind.com/
the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243

McLeod, S. A. (2017, Feb 05). The Milgram shock experiment. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

Milgram experiment. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2020, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgramexperiment#Criticalreception

Romm, C. (2015, January 8). Rethinking one of psychology’s most infamous
experiments. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/
health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous experiments/384913/