Stanley Milgram's Experiment: Obedience To Authority Figures

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Similarly, an experiment performed by Stanley Milgram in 1963 proves that obedience to authority figures can become very harmful. In Milgram’s experiment he asks for volunteers to come and “take part in the study of learning” (McLeod 584). This is the first dilemma with his research. He was advertising a completely different experiment. The volunteers are asked to read to a “student” a set of words and if the “student” did not respond correctly then the volunteer must shock the “student” with increasing voltages of electricity. Little did the volunteer know the “student” was actually an actor not connected to the electricity. Some of the shocks that the volunteers are told to administer being extremely deadly. Because of this pressure volunteers