Saturday, November 26, 2011

Obedience to Authority

If a person of authority ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person, would you follow orders? The Milgram Experiment on obedience to authority was conducted in 1961. "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." Stanley Milgram, 1974.

After viewing ABC Primetime's re-creation of the Milgram Experiment, did you find the results surprising? Why or why not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqNP9HRy7Y
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416&page=1

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