Milgram's obedience experiments
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Do you think Milgram's obedience experiments were ethical? Why or why not?
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Milgram's obedience experiments are assessed in terms of ethics.
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Lets first recap the experiment.
Trying to understand what made common people turn into cold blooded killers during world war 2, Milgarm set up an experiment to try to understand this phenomenon.
Milgram put had experimenters in white coats put half the participants to be "in charge" of other participants. These individuals were to ask questions to other people across a wall, so the two people could not see each other. If the person answers the question wrongly, then were told that they have to administer them an electric shock. They had a control board, which could administer shocks from mild, to extremely severe. The more questions that person got wrong, ...
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