When Milgram modified his shock experiment so that the experimenter gave the teacher orders over the telephone, the level of obedience decreased.
The Milgram Experiment: What Was It?
- In 1961, not long after the trial of World War II criminal Adolf Eichmann had commenced, Milgram began his experiments.
- Milgram was intrigued by Eichmann's justification that he was only carrying out orders when he ordered the murder of millions of Jews.
- Milgram addressed the query, "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were only obeying orders? ", in his 1974 book "Obedience to Authority." Could we classify them all as conspirators?
What happen in the Milgram experiment?
- Milgram was appalled by the experiment's findings.
- In the "remote condition" version of the experiment mentioned above, despite the learner's shouts, complaints, and, at the 330-volt level, unsettling silence, 65 percent of the participants (26 out of 40) continued to administer shocks all the way up to the 450-volt level.
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