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An Ethical Consideration of the Work of Milgram - Stanley Milgram carried out a series of studies in 1963 and 1973 related to obedience to authority.


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An Ethical Consideration of the Work of Milgram - Stanley Milgram carried out a series of studies in 1963 and 1973 related to obedience to authority.

... An Ethical Consideration of the Work of Milgram Stanley Milgram carried out a series of studies in 1963 and 1973 related to obedience to authority. These studies have been viewed as controversial ever since, mainly because of the ethical issues they raise. Although he was able to obtain conclusive results and discover that under certain situational influences anybody might obey orders that went against their conscience; the way in which he carried out his studies was arguably unethical and contributed to the BPS Ethical Principles: Informed Consent Milgram's participants were not offered the choice of informed consent, they were told the experiment was being conducted for a different reason, that the hypothesis was to see if people learn better if they are punished when in fact it was to observe obedience in relation to authority. However, it was necessary for Milgram to use this "single blind" method to make the experiment

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