Thursday, June 6, 2019

The Milgram Experiment

Stanley Milgram was a researcher who studied obedience at Yale.  He and many others were concerned about the type of society that could participate in such atrocities as the Holocaust.  Go to the following website and find the answers to the questions that follow.  There are several short videos to watch.  Please share this with me electronically.

The Milgram Experiment
  1. What was the circumstance that led Milgram to attempt to answer his question?
  2. According to the article, what is the definition of "obedience"?
  3. Describe the basic idea of the experiment.
  4. What was the result?  
  5. What were Milgram's conclusions?
  6. Briefly describe Milgram's Agency Theory.
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