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Should Milgram's experiments on obedience even have been conducted?
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Should Milgram's experiments on obedience even have been conducted? Consider the ethics of the experiments, the contribution of Milgram's findings to our scientific knowledge about social behaviour, and the relevance of the study to contemporary life in Britain today. Obedience is a type of social influence whereby somebody acts in response to a direct order from another person. In the past, obedience to authority has resulted in the mass slaughter of millions of innocent people as seen in World War II, and many other atrocities since then. This begs the question of what causes people to obey such orders. In a series of studies between 1960 and 1963, Stanley Milgram attempted to explain this aspect of human behaviour. Milgram's original experiment in 1960 involved 40 male participants who had been recruited through newspaper advertisements. The participants were told the study was an investigation into the effects of punishment on learning and memory,...
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