Milgram Electrocution
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- Created on: 23-04-15 10:43
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- Milgram Electrocution
- Aims
- Investigate how situational context could lead to ordinary people inflicting harm on others
- Procedure
- 40 male participants 20-50 recruited through newspaper each paid $4.50
- Laboratory experiment at Yale University participants told they would be teacher or student
- Confederate was student and participant was teacher
- Confederate was mild mannered 47 year old who said had heart complaint took into different room
- Everytime student didn't know the answer teacher administered shock
- Voltage ranged 15 volts- 450 volts labelled danger ***
- Correct to start but started to make mistakes, participants encouraged to carry on by experimenter until refused or reached 450
- Evaluation
- Psychological harm as they thought really hurting someone
- Deception could cause stress, demeaning to lie to them for reaserch
- Only male aged 20-50, not representative
- Not informed so found it hard to withdraw when wanted as they felt they had agreed
- Findings
- All participants continued up to 300 volts
- 65% of participants continued to 450 volts
- Contradicted assumed results of 3%
- Milgram conducted variations to investigate causes he found
- Conclusion
- Obedience was more due to situational factors than deviant personality which contradicts the Germans are different hypothesis
- Aims
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