Milgram's study of destructive obedience(BREIF)

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  • Created by: Sofia154
  • Created on: 26-05-20 17:15

Context

-From a European Jewish family 

-Early research into the holocaust deducted that german culture lead to the high levels of conformity necessary for genocide to take place.(DISPOSITIONAL HYPOTHESIS)

-Milgram was interested also in the social proecesses going on around the induvidual and that it could explain evens like the holocaust(SITUATIONAL HYPOTHESIS)

Aim-To investigate how obediant people would react to orders given by a higher authority that would inflic pain upon another person 

Method

-The sample was of 40 men(22.5% were professionals,37.5% were manual workers & 40% were white-collared workers).It was a volunteer sample from the same region of America.

-Volunteers were paid $4.50 and were aquaired by…

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