Monday, January 19, 2015

"New Insight on a Famous Study"

"Now an analysis of Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram’s widely known 1963 “obedience” experiments—inspired in part by the 1961 Eichmann atrocities trial in Jerusalem—refutes assumptions made about the participants in Milgram’s experiments: Rather than mindlessly following brutal orders to inflict pain on others, many were often proud and felt privileged to have contributed to his scientific research. They were not passive conformists blindly following malevolent orders, but rather “engaged followers” who identified with the noble goals of Milgram’s research."
http://theamericanscholar.org/new-insight-on-a-famous-study/

I alps wonder if they did analysis on what kinds of personalities had different experiences with the experiment. I would love to see an experiment of how a person can create that sense of worth, in order to overcome skepticism about behavior.

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