Obedience: Milgram's research

Milgram's original obedience study:

Milgram’s German hypothesis wanted to know if Germans were different - were they more obedient? Seeing as the German population followed Hitler’s orders and slaughtered over 10 million Jews, Gypsies and members of other social groups in the Holocaust during WW2;

Procedure - 

·       Recruited 40 male participants through newspapers and flyers in the post, he said he was looking for participants for a study about memory. The participants that were recruited were aged between 20 and 50 years old and their jobs ranged from unskilled to professional. They were offered £4.50 to participate.

·       When they arrived at Milgram’s lab, they were firstly paid and then there was a rigged draw for their role. A confederate 'Mr Wallace’ always ended up as the 'learner' while the true participant was the…