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Do Milgram's experiment's tell us anything about why people obey authority outside the laboratory?
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Do Milgram's experiment's tell us anything about why people obey authority outside the laboratory? In a post-holocaust world, Stanley Milgram, an American psychologist, deliberated with disbelief on the atrocities that the Nazis had committed during their time in power. Being Jewish himself the issue was particularly close to heart and he questioned what it was that had driven the Nazis to commit such crimes. The theory that 'Germans are different' and that they were a particularly obedient and cruel race was a popular idea at the time when Milgram was growing up, so Milgram attempted to test this hypothesis using psychological research. The 'Germans are different' hypothesis stated that the Germans were lacking certain personality characteristics such as care for others and possessed, instead, a character that unquestioningly followed orders. These character flaws were then exploited by Hitler to pursue his own ends, the systematic extermination of millions of Europeans;...
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