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Obedience Studies

Jaclyn Messmer
September 23, 2008
Essay #1

Essay 1
“Perhaps the most fundamental lesson of our study [is that] ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process” stated Stanley Milgram, an experimental scientist. Milgram’s statement was a thought of many psychologists who believed individuals are greatly influenced by thoughts of authority and will abide to authoritarian command even when the act is immoral. Along with Milgram, psychologists such as Asch, Zimbardo, and Fromm, experimented and analyzed the extent individuals go to to obey authoritarian figures. Stanley Migram, a Yale psychologist, conducted a classic study observing obedience.
Milgram developed a series of experiments that forced the participants to either violate their conscience by obeying the immoral demands of an authority figure or to refuse those demands (Milgram, 358). Milgram designed a simple......


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