July 30, 2004
From: The Stanley Milgram Website
Question: Milgram's obedience experiments revealed something we didn't know before: The unexpectedly high degree of obedience-65% in his first experiment-shown by normal people to destructive orders, even in the absence of coercion. But there is another important finding that sometimes gets overlooked-that the amount of obedience varied as a function of the situation. In fact, across the whole series of over 20 experiments, Milgram found that the proportion of obedient subjects (that is, those who gave the maximum 450 volt shock) ranged from a low of 0% to a high of 92.5%.
Which of the following experimental variations yielded a 0% obedience rate?
a. Two peers (confederates) rebel, leaving the real subject to administer shocks by himself;
b. An ordinary man (rather than the experimenter) gives the orders;
c. The one experiment in which women served as subjects;
d. The experimenter says to stop the shocks, but the learner says he wants to continue;
e. The experimenter gives his orders by phone;
f. The experiment is conducted in an office building in Bridgeport, without any connection to Yale;
g. Rather than having to increase the shock each time the learner made a mistake, the subject could choose any shock level.
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via: The Stanley Milgram Website
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milgram reenactment
Posted by Cieciel at July 30, 2004 04:37 AM