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  1. Milgram Shock Experiment

    Yes, in the Milgram experiment, some participants refused to continue administering shocks, demonstrating individual variation in obedience to authority figures. In the original Milgram experiment, approximately 35% of participants refused to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts, while 65% obeyed and delivered the 450-volt shock.

  2. Milgram experiment

    Milgram experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the teacher (T) believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confederate. The subject is led to believe that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in ...

  3. Milgram experiment

    Milgram experiment, controversial series of experiments examining obedience to authority conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. In the experiment, an authority figure, the conductor of the experiment, would instruct a volunteer participant, labeled the "teacher," to administer painful, even dangerous, electric shocks to the ...

  4. Milgram Experiment: Overview, History, & Controversy

    Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted these experiments during the 1960s. They explored the effects of authority on obedience. In the experiments, an authority figure ordered participants to deliver what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to another person. These results suggested that people are highly influenced ...

  5. The Milgram Experiment: Summary, Conclusion, Ethics

    The goal of the Milgram experiment was to test the extent of humans' willingness to obey orders from an authority figure. Participants were told by an experimenter to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to another individual. Unbeknownst to the participants, shocks were fake and the individual being shocked was an actor.

  6. What Really Happened During The Milgram Experiment?

    Published February 26, 2024. Updated March 22, 2024. The Milgram experiment tested its subjects' willingness to harm other people for the sake of obeying authority — and it ended with truly shocking results. Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Participants in one of Stanley Milgram's experiments that examined obedience to authority.

  7. The Stanley Milgram Experiment: Understanding Obedience

    Stanley Milgram with shock generator ‍ Milgram's Independent Variables. As we have seen, in Stanley Milgram's famous experiment conducted at Yale University in the 1960s, he sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the commands of an authority figure, even if it meant administering severe electric shocks to another person.

  8. The Milgram Experiment: Theory, Results, & Ethical Issues

    It is your job as the Teacher to pull a lever that delivers those electric shocks and to gradually increase the intensity of the shocks if the Learner performs badly. You notice that the highest amount of voltage you can deliver is 450 volts, which is labeled with "danger—severe shock." ... Milgram Experiment & Obedience to Authority.

  9. The Secrets Behind Psychology's Most Famous Experiment

    The electric shock machine was a fake, the learner was hired by the experimenter to pretend to make the punishment-deserving mistakes, and the person acting as the experimenter was an actor hired ...

  10. What Milgram's Shock Experiments Really Mean

    Each time Tyler gave an incorrect matched word, our subjects were instructed by an authority figure (an actor named Jeremy) to deliver an electric shock from a box with toggle switches that ranged ...

  11. The power of authority: how easily we do what we're told

    (Since then, many scientists have argued that Milgram's experiment is hugely unethical.) The power of authority. That all being said, there's a reason why Milgram's experiment stays with us ...

  12. Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority

    Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Milgram s classic yet controversial experiment illustrates people's reluctance to confront those who abuse power.

  13. Culture of Shock

    Healthy, well-adjusted people are willing to administer lethal electric shocks to another person when told to do so by an authority figure. Milgram's findings convulsed the world of psychology ...

  14. The Milgram Shock Experiment

    History of the Milgram Shock Study. This study is most commonly known as the Milgram Shock Study or the Milgram Experiment. Its name comes from Stanley Milgram, the psychologist behind the study. Milgram was born in the 1930s in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents. As he grew up, he witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust from thousands ...

  15. Rethinking One of Psychology's Most Infamous Experiments

    In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram's electric-shock studies showed that people will obey even the most abhorrent of orders. But recently, researchers have begun to question his conclusions—and offer ...

  16. Would You Punish Someone with Electric Shocks If Told to Do So?

    The notion that two thirds of participants delivered maximum shocks was the result of the first official study Milgram published on this topic, but the rest of the experiments, written about in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority, showed a wide range of complete obedience, from 0% of participants to 93% depending on the specific experimental ...

  17. Infamous 1960s Study Repeated: How Far Would You Go to Obey Authority?

    In an infamous series of experiments first conducted in the 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist, asked study participants to deliver painful electric shocks to other people. The shock ...

  18. ELI5: The Milgram Experiment and its singnificance to psychology

    In the first experiment 65% of the participants gave the highest level shock (marked as 450 volts). What that means: The reason these results were so significant is that outside of that setting it would be very hard to convince someone to give another person a 450 volt electric shock. Milgram believed (and later experiments supported this) that ...

  19. People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their

    In fact, some people even prefer an electric shock to being left alone with their minds. "I'm really excited to see this paper," says Matthew Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, who says his own work has turned up a similar result. "When people are spending time inside their heads, they're markedly ...

  20. Astrakhan Oblast

    From 8 October 1980 to 27 October 1984, and under the leadership of Nikolai Baibakov, [a] the USSR held fifteen deep underground nuclear tests for Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy at the site Vega in the Ryn Desert in the east of the oblast less than 50 km from downtown Astrakhan to create reservoirs for natural gas storage. [17] [18] Because of the detonation depth (975 to 1,100 ...

  21. Astrakhan Map

    Astrakhan is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression, 60 miles from the Caspian Sea, with a population of 475,629 residents at the 2021 Census. Photo: Madyudya Denis, CC BY-SA 3.0.

  22. Astrakhan Oblast, Russia guide

    Astrakhan Oblast - Overview. Astrakhan Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, part of the Southern Federal District, situated in the Caspian Lowlands where the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan is the capital city of the region. The population of Astrakhan Oblast is about 989,400 (2022), the area - 49,024 sq. km.

  23. Astrakhan Oblast

    Astrakhan Oblast is a region steeped in the history of Central Asia. Before the arrival of Russian power, this area was at times ruled by the Jewish Khazar Khaganate, the Golden Horde, and the Astrakhan Khanate (centered on the present day city). In 1556 Ivan the Terrible conquered the region and annexed most of its territory at a time when Russian-allied Kalmyks were attacking and displacing ...