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Stanley Milgram 's "Behavioural Study of Obedience portrays the ideas that which the holocaust was carried out, the study showed how one person that was instructed by another a superior, infringe on the rights of a person.Stanley Milgram performed the experiment by allowing confederates to administer different levels of shock treatment to subjects who failed to answer correctly. Stanley Milgram(1963) wanted to identify to what extent would a person administer shock treatment to another in terms of being obedient ,although many of Milgram’ peers who analyzed his study on Obedience found that Milgram was unethical in his design of the study(Baumrind.1964). In the following essay I will attempt to explain whether the experiment was ethical. …show more content…

The harm brought upon the participants are emotional rather than physical as the participants are led to believe they are administering different levels of shock treatment to confederates which inturn measure their capacity of obedience.This aspect of the study proves to be unethical as the experiment brings about harm to the subjects for eg. The subjects break out in sweats , trembling occurs , nervous laughter , the digging of their fingers into the skin etc( Mcleod, 2007). Informed Consent: can be explained as informing the potential participant about the nature of the research and what exactly is being experimented and therefore the subject suggests whether he/she would like to participate in the research program. The study proves to be unethical in this aspect as it blatantly lied to the respondents about the nature of the study, which could cause the subject to loose trust in a rational authority in the future.the researcher did not disclose the true nature of the study which is a serious violation of the subjects …show more content…

This is something that the subject is going through they are being deceived on a emotional level, as they were not informed about the study directly, in this case it is unethical as the subjects privacy and rights have been violated as the experiment denies that on part of the subject , lacking in consideration for the subjects welfare and emotional well being from the experimenter.

Action and Competence of researchers:when one is conducting a test ,they must conduct themselves in an ethical behavioural manner,eg when working with others they should not be biased. They should be able to justify themselves in a justifiable manner as well as be able to conduct themselves with sufficient knowledge about what they were researching. Although the Behavioural Study of obedience in my opinion was not ethical in many ways the results were proven to be precise and concluded with the desired

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Among multiple issues including giving misleading information, the most dominate is the lack of consent Milgram received from his subjects to participate in such a test (102). While I do see that this is immoral, there is no way that Milgram could have completed his experiments effectively if he had done it morally. The first issue is if he explains what is actually going to happen during the experiments, that would obviously hurt the integrity of his results. Also, going back to how the experiments help us, if those who participated knew what was going to happen, it wouldn’t have affected them as severely. It was the shock that the experiment gave that brought their life choices into question.

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The study measures the willingness of ordinary individuals to adhere to an authority figure who told them to commit acts on another individual which may conflict with their personal morals. The experiment found that 65% of the individuals completely obeyed the authority figure and made it through to inflict the final shock of 450 volts on another human being for an incorrect answer. These findings shocked me and led me to believe that it would have been entirely possible for a seemingly ordinary person such as myself to commit horrible acts against another person if I was instructed to do so. I sincerely hope that through being educated on such experiments and the holocaust itself, I would now have the strength to stand up for what I morally believe in and refuse any order outside of my

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Ultimately, the behaviours executed by the group of policemen is suggested to be replicable, as some aspects of the consequences of the behaviours of the policemen and the results of both Zimbardo’s and Milgram's experiments paralleled. The Stanford prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo yielded similarly chilling results: a nucleus of increasingly enthusiastic killers who volunteered for the firing squads and "Jew hunts"; a larger group of policemen who performed as shooters and ghetto clearers when assigned but who did not seek opportunities to kill (and in some cases refrained from killing, contrary to standing orders, when no one was monitoring their actions); and a small group (less than 20 percent) of refusers and evaders. (Browning 168) Likewise, just like some of the subjects from Stanley Milgram’s experiment on the topic of obedience to authority, the policemen “mitigated their behaviour when they could do so without personal risk but were unable to refuse participation in the battalion's killing operations openly” (Browning 176).

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