Do we, as humans, respond to authority figures when given a command to do something that we know is wrong or do we listen to our conscious and react on our morals and beliefs? I think this is what the Milgram Studies/Experiment sought to find out. According to the book on page 365, in 1963 Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered how many people would resist immoral requests made by authority figures. From my understanding, this psychologist performed experiments to study the obedience of people. These studies were called the Milgram studies on obedience (Rathus, 2013). After reading the book, I understand that the study had 40 subjects who had different careers and backgrounds such as teachers and high school dropouts. I thought that was different because I assumed the people would all be someone who is already in an authoritative position so it would come easy for them to obey commands given to them. According to the book, they were given a reasonable fee for their time to participate in the study. The experiment was explained to the subjects as the effects …show more content…
As we all know, there wasn’t any electric shock being administered but the teachers assumed it was. I think the issue is was it right to deceive the participants of the study. I honestly don’t think the results are accurate because they were deceived and they believed that the learner was being shocked by electricity. The people who were the teachers were being empathic because they thought they were hurting the learners in the study. I think I would have had a different reaction and would not have been able to send the first electric shock. I don’t like pain and I can’t stand to see others in pain. Also, another issue is did the participants feel pressured to continue. I think they may have felt obligated to continue with the study because they wanted to get pain and they wanted to be associated with