Research and define the difference between obedience and conformity. Then research and report on the Milgram experiments, including how they were conducted, the results, the controversy, and what we can learn from them. Finally, which stages of Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning do the different test subjects correlate with (that is, those who kept administering the shocks, those who questioned it, and those who refused)?
Write a paper of at least one thousand words, taking care to list references of any websites, articles, or books that you consult.
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The Milgram Shock Experiment
By Saul McLeod, updated 2017
One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
Milgram (1963) examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiours.
The experiments began in July 1961, a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question:
Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram, 1974).
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Milgram's Experiment
Milgram's Agency Theory
Milgram Experiment Variations
Critical Evaluation
Ethical Issues
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