Milgrams Study

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What was Milgrams Interested in?
Destructive Obedience
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What is Destructive Obedience?
when Individuals follow orders from a person in a higher position, but they know that those orders will cause harm to others
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Millions of People where killed during World war 2. What was their excuse for killing?
They were following orders from a person in a higher position
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What is the background for this study?
events that happened in the nazi concentration camps
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What was Milgrams Main aim?
To prove the theory that Germans are different
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What is the mans name who did the study about germans being different?
Adorno et al
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What did he believe?
that Germans have a certain type of personality
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what is the personality called?
Authoritarian Personality
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how are these people likely to act?
Hostile to People who have a lower status to them and nice to those who have higher status
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What did these results show?
That there was no need to conduct the study in germany because it was obvious that germans are different was untrue
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What kind of study was it?
Observational Study
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Where was the study?
In a Laboratory
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What sex was used and how many?
40 males
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What was their ages?
it ranged from 20years to 50years
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where was the study held?
At Yale Uni
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