The Milgram Experiment: Does Emotions Guide Knowledge?

In natural science, which is based on evidence, this statement would be entirely untrue and thus be rejected. However considering human science where emotions guide knowledge as as much as evidence it can very different. When we reach a conclusion intuitively, we use our judgments and experience and background knowledge to draw on a hypotheses. Then reason, would get us to a conclusion. The Milgram Experiment was a research conducted to observe how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved listening to an authority figure and harming another person. Volunteers in this experiment were assigned as ‘teachers’, and the learners were actors, however it was unknown to the volunteers at the time. Each time a learner answered the question wrong, the teacher had to electrocute them, increasing the voltage for each incorrect question. In

The way an authority figures communicates influences our impression of them, thus influencing our desire to obey or disobey them. The doctor in the Milgram experiment used commanding and emotionless language, making the “teacher” subconsciously want to obey him just by the use of language. People also have confidence in authority figures and trust that they are making the best possible decision when they choose to obey despite obvious evidence that they were severely harming their subject. They simply have faith that their authority figure is making the best decision as their reasoning is impaired and they are more easily swayed to believe certain things they would not